Bug#244601: tetex-bin: package fails to configure: Error: `mpost -ini -jobname=metafun -progname=mpost metafun.mp' failed

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> On 20.04.04 Branden Robinson (branden@debian.org) wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 01:12:06PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>
>> > What is the version of tetex-extra?
>> 
>> necrotic:~# dpkg -l tetex-extra
>> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
>> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
>> ||/ Name                                         Version                                      Description
>> +++-============================================-============================================-========================================================================================================
>> pn  tetex-extra                                  <none>                                       (no description available)
>> 
>> tetex-bin only Suggests: tetex-extra, and should not assume its files are
>> present.
>> 
> drachi:[tetex] >dpkg-deb -c tetex-extra_2.0.2-5.1_all.deb | grep metafun.mp
> -rw-r--r-- root/root      1407 2002-10-30 09:41:44 ./usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/metafun.mp
> drachi:[tetex] >dpkg-deb -c tetex-base_2.0.2-5.1_all.deb | grep metafun.mp
> drachi:[tetex] >
>
> So then: Where does metafun.mp come from? What is the version of
> tetex-base installed?

I don't know. But:

IT WAS HERE, TOO!

The file from tetex-extra_1.0. was on my system too, although I had
installed tetex-extra_2.0.2.

In fact I cannot be sure that it is really from woody's tetex-extra, but
were else?

My upgrade path was:

- from woody to home-made backports from unstable at the time of 2.0.2-4,
  approximately.

- then to Adrian Bunk's bunk-2 backports

- unstable packages since early this year.

Of course I checked again that it does not occur when upgrading from
woody in a pbuilder chroot.


Completely puzzled,
Frank

-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie