Bug#251358: Something broken in tetex-bin

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 28.05.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Vittorio <v.demartino2@virgilio.it> wrote:

Hi $\forall$,

> > 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 
>                                              ^^^^^
> thiss should be /texmf.d/
> 
> > actually was codified with something like /usr/share/texmf/..../05TeXMF.cnf.
> > 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?
> 
> This is strange, because if you really _purged_ tetex-bin,
> /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf should be reinstalled. Furthermore,
> there shouldn't be a "texmf.cnf" file "under the usual
> /usr/share/texmf", only in /usr/share/tetex-bin/.
> 
I've just rebuilt my tetex-bin.

drachi:[tetex] >dpkg-deb -c tetex-bin_2.0.2-14_i386.deb |grep etc/texmf
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2004-05-28 15:03:02 ./etc/texmf/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2004-05-28 15:03:18 ./etc/texmf/fmt.d/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      3587 2004-05-28 15:03:18 ./etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tetex.cnf
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2004-05-28 15:03:02 ./etc/texmf/texmf.d/
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2004-05-28 15:03:18 ./var/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
drachi:[tetex] >

The related parts from debian/rules:

#       update-texmf stuffs #########
        mv -f $(debvar)/web2c/texmf.cnf $(sharedir)/tetex-bin
        # these files are handled by ucf
        cp texmf.d/*.cnf $(sharedir)/$(package)
        cp -a debian/md5sums/*md5sum* $(sharedir)/$(package)
        install -m 755 debian/update-texmf debian/$(package)/usr/sbin
        (cd $(debvar)/web2c/; ln -s $(etcdir)/texmf.cnf .)
        cp debian/update-texmf.8 $(sharedir)/man/man8/

AFAICS nothing is installed to /etc/texmf/texmf.d . Is that intended?

H. 
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