Bug#263840: tetex-bin: Missing space in language.dat the problem with fmtutil?

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 08.08.04 Fredrik Jonson (pt97fjo@student.bth.se) wrote:

Hi,

> Followup-For: Bug #263840
> 
I guess you mean #263986 or #263343.

> 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     
> 
The offending line is not commented at all, AFAICS. The broken patch
is sitting in the sources of tetex-base (patch-deb).
Thanks for pointing it out!

> 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.
> 
Yes, you're right. Thanks for your help!

> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2004/08/msg00125.html
>     Subject: pdflatex stymied after update to tetex-extra 2.0.2a-2
> 
I guess, that stymied things have something to do with the TeX ->
e-TeX migration. I'm waiting for an answer from the OP. The
difference between that one and your bug (you delivered the fix for)
is, that in the latter case the formats are not built due to broken
language.dat, while in the first case they are not built during
postin possibly due to missing entries in fmtutil.cnf.

H. 
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