Bug#265611: tetex-extra and fmtutil

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Andreas Gredler <jimmy@g-tec.co.at> wrote:

> Didn't work. While the packages failed I read the other mails and I was
> reminded that my computer had a powerfail a few days ago. 

That might be an explanation.

> I'm not sure
> if it was during the update, but I found two *.dist files in /etc/texmf.
> I copied them over the other files and suddenly all three tetex packages
> became installable.
> Unfortunately latex reported errors so I decided to remove the packages.
> I also removed the directories, that dpkg refused to delete.
> After the new install everything works now :-)

Fine. By the way, sometimes the reason why dpkg refuses to delete
directories in /etc/ is that an _other_ package created a configuration
file there in a maintainer script. If this other package is not removed
and you just remove the directories, this other package might have
problems.

Anyway, I think we can close this bug, once the change from
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf to /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
has been made in the maintainer scripts. Do you agree?

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