Bug#245599: tetex-bin: mpost always fails with "Fatal mem file error; I'm stymied"

[Seth LaForge <sethml@ofb.net>]

I tried installing tetex-extra, and mpost still doesn't work:

% mpost foo
This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5)
(Fatal mem file error; I'm stymied)
% dpkg -l 'tetex*'
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
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un  tetex          <none>         (no description available)
ii  tetex-base     2.0.2-7        Basic library files of teTeX
ii  tetex-bin      2.0.2-13       The teTeX binary files
pn  tetex-dev      <none>         (no description available)
pn  tetex-doc      <none>         (no description available)
un  tetex-eurosym  <none>         (no description available)
ii  tetex-extra    2.0.2-7        Additional library files of teTeX
un  tetex-french   <none>         (no description available)
pn  tetex-lib      <none>         (no description available)
pn  tetex-nonfree  <none>         (no description available)
pn  tetex-src      <none>         (no description available)

So to me this seems to be an actual bug, not a packaging split issue.
Please let me know if you need more details.

> We are planning to rearrange the tetex packages after the sarge
> release. Such a step will likely cause one or another breakage,
> therefore this shouldn't be done shortly before a release.

If the issue is that tetex-extra needs to be installed (which I'm no
longer convinced of), then the package description for tetex-bin
should mention that the user will have to install tetex-extra to make
mpost work; otherwise you're likely to get a lot more bug reports and
frustrated users one sarge is released.

Seth