Bug#262053: tetex-bin: Local hyphenation configuration not preserved on reconfigure/reinstall

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Jaume <j2003gi@yahoo.es> wrote:

> Dear Debian TeTeX Developers,
>
> The local hyphenation configuration does not seem to be preserved when
> reconfiguring/reinstalling the tetex-bin package (using debconf).
>
>    5a.- If I now try to reconfigure again the package, 
> $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tetex-bin
>         the list of selected languages reads: french, german, ngerman, spanish
>         and I have to reselect the languages as in point 3 above.
>
>    5b.- If (instead of point 5a), I reinstall the tetex-bin package:
> $ sudo aptitude reinstall tetex-bin
>         the hyphenation patterns are resetted to the ones in point 2.- above:
> $ latex kaution
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
> (./kaution.tex
> LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
> Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, s
> panish, nohyphenation, loaded.
> [...]
> =========

I can reproduce the error that catalan is forgotten (and I know why - I
forgot to add the new hyphenation patterns catalan and icelandic at one
place in the config script).

But I cannot reproduce the magical appearance of german. What is the
output (as root) of

echo "FGET tetex-bin/hyphen shown_again" | debconf-communicate

Does ngerman also reappear?

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