Bug#269416: tetex-extra postinst lacks debconf loading

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Agustin Martin <agustin.martin@hispalinux.es> wrote:

> egrep '^TEXMF|^VARTEXMF' /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
[...]
> VARTEXMF = /var/lib/texmf
> TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFOLDLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN}

You didn't by chance safe that file before you did the reinstall? It
would be very interesting to look whether the contents of the file
account for the reason why VARTEXMF wasn't properly introduced, and
whether we should fix the code that does it.

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