Bug#266497: apt-get install textex-bin fails

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

"Thomas S. Iversen" <thomassi@dina.kvl.dk> wrote:

> Unfortiunatly I can't help with output as I have already solve _my_
> problem (had to), but bascally it seems that the tetex packages has a
> /have had a problem when dealing with an upgrade.

What a pity. The point is that there are two explanations. 

One is that you changed /etc/texmf/texmf.d/00TeXMF.cnf or
/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf yourself, and upon upgrade, refused to accept the
change when dpkg or ucf asked you (which is the default choice for
dpkg). In this case it's not a bug, it's what you chose (although we
will change the wording so that the change looks more important).

The other is that there is in fact a bug, probably in the way we handle
ucf. 

I don't have an idea how we could find this out now.

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