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

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Seth LaForge <sethml@ofb.net> schrieb:

> 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)

Hm. Could you please repeat this with

mpost -kpathsea-debug=-1 foo  2> mpost.log

and send us the mpost.log file?

> So to me this seems to be an actual bug, not a packaging split issue.

Yes, it seems so.

> 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.

Yes, we should put something like this into tetex-bin's description.

Regards, Frank

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