Bug#245599: tetex-bin: mpost always fails with "Fatal mem file error; I'm stymied"
reassign 245599 tetex-extra
stop
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> On 14.06.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
>> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
>
>> > ^1 Perhaps we should remove that formats in preinst too. I won't
>> > do so until I'm sure we're on the right track.
>>
>> It might be a good idea anyway. With the current setup¹ the formats
>> that were first created by tetex-extra's call "fmtutil --missing"
>> will only be recreated by tetex-bin's or tetex-base's call "fmtutil
>> --all". This means that if we fix a bug in tetex-extra that caused
>> a wrong format file to be built, the new, correct formats will not
>> be generated on an installed system.
>>
> Will you do that in tetex-extra. So we can close #245599?
There was yet such a call in postrm, but only if it is called for
package removal, not upon upgrade. I changed it so that the formats are
always removed.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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