Bug#244601: tetex-bin: package fails to configure: Error: `mpost -ini -jobname=metafun -progname=mpost metafun.mp' failed
Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> On Branden's system, /usr/share/texmf/web2c is _not_ a symlink. It is no
>> wonder that no package claims to own files in there, it just shouldn't
>> exist. One explanation for its existence would have been manual
>> intervention. Branden says he can exclude this.
>>
>> I simply can't think of a different explanation. Some imagined dpkg bug
>> could lead to the error that a to-be-symlink is created as a
>> directory. But there is no code at all in Debian, AFAIS, that would copy
>> the files that we ship in /var/lib/texmf/web2c to that directory.
>
> I have a possible partial explanation, that relies on this quote from
> Policy (§ 6.5, step 4):
Thank you, that is a good idea. I guess there is no possibility to do a
string search over the BTS, something like "/usr/share/texmf/web2c AND
(symlink OR (symbolic NEAR link)) NOT 'Package: tetex-*'"?
Frank
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Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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