Bug#273244: tetex-bin: update-texmf is broken

[Matt Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu>]

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-21
Severity: important

This shell transcript shows that update-texmf does not update /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf:

    [beth] incoming# type update-texmf
    update-texmf is hashed (/usr/sbin/update-texmf)
    [beth] incoming# update-texmf -v
    Regenerating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... done
    [beth] incoming# ls -l /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
    -rw-r--r--  1 root root 26194 2004-09-07 11:36 /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
    [beth] incoming# date
    Fri Sep 24 15:50:06 EDT 2004

Could it be that update-texmf thinks texmf.cnf is newer than all its
dependencies?  No:

    [beth] incoming# touch /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf 
    [beth] incoming# update-texmf -v
    Regenerating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... done
    [beth] incoming# ls -l /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
    -rw-r--r--  1 root root 26194 2004-09-07 11:36 /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
    [beth] incoming# dpkg -s tetex-bin
    Package: tetex-bin
    Status: install ok installed
    Priority: optional
    Section: tex
    Installed-Size: 8700
    Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
    Architecture: i386
    Version: 2.0.2-21


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-beth.1
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debconf                1.4.30.5          Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils            2.8.4             Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                   1.10.23           Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ed                     0.2-20            The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                  2.3.2.ds1-16      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                1:3.4.1-4sarge1   GCC support library
ii  libice6                4.3.0.dfsg.1-4    Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libkpathsea3           2.0.2-20          path search library for teTeX (run
ii  libpaper1              1.1.14-0.4        Library for handling paper charact
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.5.0-7         PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4    X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5             1:3.3.4-6sarge1.2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libt1-5                5.0.2-3           Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii  libwww0                5.4.0-9           The W3C WWW library
ii  libx11-6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-4    X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxaw7                4.3.0.dfsg.1-4    X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-4    X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxmu6                4.3.0.dfsg.1-4    X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxt6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4    X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  mime-support           3.28-1            MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  perl                   5.8.4-2.2         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed                    4.1.2-1           The GNU sed stream editor
ii  tetex-base             2.0.2b-5          Basic library files of teTeX
ii  ucf                    1.08              Update Configuration File: preserv
ii  xlibs                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-4    X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.1.1-7       compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
* tetex-bin/upd_map: true
  tetex-bin/cnf_name:
* tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
* tetex-bin/fmtutil-failed:
* tetex-bin/userperm: false
* tetex-bin/texmf: true
  tetex-bin/updmap-failed:
* tetex-bin/hyphen:
  tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
* tetex-bin/use_debconf: false
* tetex-bin/groupname: users
* tetex-bin/groupperm: true
* tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true