Bug#264241: postrm assumes mktexlsr is available

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 07.08.04 Ryan Murray (rmurray@debian.org) wrote:

Hi Ryan,

> tetex-extra's postrm fails:
> (Reading database ... 7896 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing tetex-extra ...
> Purging configuration files for tetex-extra ...
> dpkg: error processing tetex-extra (--purge):
>  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  tetex-extra
> 
> You can't assume that any of your dependencies are available in
> your postrm script, so you need to handle the case where mktexlsr
> has already been removed.
> 
Hmm.

In postrm of tetex-extra we do:

#!/bin/sh
<snip>
command mktexlsr >/dev/null 2>&1 && mktexlsr

The man page of bash tells us, that it should be sufficient to do so
if /bin/sh points to /bin/bash. I guess we have to remove the bashism
in that script and are done. Correct?
Please correct me if I'm completely wrong.
 
Thanks for your report,
  Hilmar
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