On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 09:30:25AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote: > > Hm, yes, for upgrades from potato probably. I'm not sure, we'll have to > > check the potato package and check this. But it seems we need to check > > this if we missed it upon the potato-to-woody upgrade. > > No, that was a symlink even in potato. I don't know anything about slink > and earlier (TEXMF must have been in /usr/lib/texmf long ago), but at > least this is not a transition problem from potato or woody to sarge or > unstable. > > What strikes me is that you encountered that problem exactly > now. tetex-bin cannot work properly without proper contents in > /usr/share/texmf/web2c/, it will at least fail each time postinst is > called. > > And you said that this machine has been "steadily upgraded since potato" > - this means that it was first installed with potato? Yes. > How long was it, approximately, since the last upgrade before this one > that caused the error? I don't recall at this point. > Could it be that the link got somehow lost, and you created the > directory /usr/share/texmf/web2c manually, because this solved some > problems you encountered? I did not create it manually. > > Can you point me to where exactly you use this directory-to-symlink > > migration logic - I guess in one of the preinst scripts? > > It seems we don't need this. Oh, okay. > Would you agree that we downgrade the severity of this bug? Your system > is inconsistent wrt tetex in a way that will stop it working completely; > and I can see no indication that any recent package of ours has caused > this. It seems it needs really weird, improbably co-occurrences to > trigger this, if not manual intervention. On the other hand, you > encountered the bug, and I trust you to be someone who knows what he's > doing, especially wrt "manual intervention". So I won't want to change > anything unless you agree. Feel free to downgrade it; it doesn't seem to affect all users of the package. -- G. Branden Robinson | Every aristocracy that has ever Debian GNU/Linux | existed has behaved, in all branden@debian.org | essential points, exactly like a http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | small mob. -- G.K. Chesterton
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