Bug#263840: tetex-bin: Missing space in language.dat the problem with fmtutil?
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-17
Followup-For: Bug #263840
As reported on the tetex-maint list[1], I have had problems with
latex after upgrading tetex-extra. I have now resolved the problem,
unfortunately I was not careful enough to document the details.
But I do think I have figured out why the system didn't install.
In tetex-bin_2.0.2-17_i386.deb the file
usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
is missing a space before a comment. My guess is that debconf
interprets this as the comment being not a comment. Look at the
following diff:
--- language.dat 2004-08-08 13:30:57.000000000 +0200
+++ language.dat-changed 2004-08-08 14:03:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
%=patois
%! german dehypht.tex
%=austrian
-%For use with ngerman.sty (neue Rechtschreibung):
+% For use with ngerman.sty (neue Rechtschreibung):
%! ngerman dehyphn.tex
%=naustrian
To make a system installable, just edit the generated file
/etc/texmf.cnf and add a %-sign before the offending line ("For use"),
and then run dpkg --pending --configure. As said, I'm not totally sure
on my procedure, but that is at least how I recall it.
HTH, regards,
Fredrik Jonson
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2004/08/msg00125.html
Subject: pdflatex stymied after update to tetex-extra 2.0.2a-2
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.ISO-8859-1
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.30 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.10.23 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-5 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libkpathsea3 2.0.2-17 path search library for teTeX (run
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-0.3 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-7 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libt1-5 5.0.2-3 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libwww-ssl0 [libwww0] 5.4.0-9 The W3C-WWW library (SSL support)
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii mime-support 3.28-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.4-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.1.1-2 The GNU sed stream editor
ii tetex-base 2.0.2a-2 Basic library files of teTeX
ii ucf 1.07 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-5 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
tetex-bin/upd_map: true
tetex-bin/cnf_name:
tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
tetex-bin/userperm: false
* tetex-bin/hyphen: bahasa, basque, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, finnish, greek, icelandic, italian, latin, magyar, norsk[old], norsk[nohyphb.tex], norsk[nohyphbc.tex], portuges, romanian, russian, slovak, slovene, spanish, turkish, ukrainian[ukrhyph.tex]
tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
* tetex-bin/use_debconf: true
tetex-bin/groupname: users
tetex-bin/groupperm: true
tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true
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