Bug#244601: tetex-bin: package fails to configure: Error: `mpost -ini -jobname=metafun -progname=mpost metafun.mp' failed
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
>
> Perhaps we should not only care about dirs below
> /usr/share/doc/texmf/.
> 1. Why does dh_movefiles do not care about that?
Don't know. We could file a (whishlist) bug against it, but then the
manpage says it is deprecated, and dh_install should be used
instead. Which we won't do before sarge is released.
> 2. It should not cause the bug above.
Yes. This ol' bug.
Let's summarize:
- On Branden's system, there's a whole lot of mess. The
should-be-symlink /usr/share/texmf/web2c/ is a directory (still
interested in ls -l), and there are a leftover files from
tetex-extra_1.0.2
- I also had the same leftover files.
- We don't have an idea how this could come.
How should we proceed? One idea I had was to ask in a debian-user*
mailinglist whether anybody else has these leftover files. Perhaps we
can find a pattern how they arise.
On the other hand, this does _not_ occur when one upgrades from woody to
sarge or sid. Most likely the problem was in some older version after
woody. Therefore, I think this bug is no justification for preventing
tetex-bin entering into testing, and I suggest downgrading the severity
to important.
What do you think!
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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