Bug#251358: Something broken in tetex-bin

[Vittorio <v.demartino2@virgilio.it>]

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-14

Debian testing


Submitted to debian-user list, texhash and comp.text.tex:


Under debian testing kernel 2.4.25  I was updating & upgrading the system by 
means of 
apt-get.

<snip>
Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-14) ...
Regenerating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... done
Running initex. This may take some time. ...
Error: `etex -ini ?-jobname=3Detex -progname=3Detex *etex.ini' failed
Error: `pdfetex -ini ?-jobname=3Dpdfetex -progname=3Dpdfetex *pdfetex.ini=
' failed
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/lambda.oft installed.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/omega.oft installed.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/amstex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/jadetex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdfjadetex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdftex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/tex.fmt installed.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/cont-en.efmt installed.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/elatex.efmt installed.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mptopdf.efmt installed.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdfelatex.efmt installed.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/metafun.mem installed.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mpost.mem installed.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mf.base installed.

#########################################################################=
######
fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
Visit the log files in directory
? /usr/share/texmf/web2c
for details.
#########################################################################=
######

...................

It has become a serious problem!
After those messages of error I completely uninstalled all the tetex 
packages, the tex connected ones (lyx, texmacs, etc.) by means of 
"apt-get remove --purge pasckage"; then - to be on the safe side - I 
removed by hand the
/etc/texmf & /usr/share/texmf directories with their subdirs.

Reinstalling all over again tetex-2.0.2 from the official debian testing
archive via apt-get install tetex-bin again causes a problem: when 
setting the package up debian testing complains about  a missing 
configuration file under /etc/texmf (as I said this dir was removed by 
hand by me!). In fact, I found that the configuration program of 
tetex-bin 2.0.2-14  expected an /etc/texmf/texmf/05TeXMF.cnf file that 
actually was codified with something like /usr/share/texmf/..../05TeXMF.cnf in 
the deb package.
I copied the required file under/etc/texmf/texmf/ and the configuration
complained about a missing /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf file. I found it under 
the "usual"  /usr/share/texmf/.... and copied in the right position and 
now the error is as follow:

Regenerating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... done
update-fmtutil; Something seems wrong.
dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
  tetex-bin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Has anyone any idea on why this has been happening?

Vittorio