Bug#302286: tetex-bin: postinst fails with Error: `tex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' failed
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
Yes, I have both a language.dat, and a language.dat.postinst-bak
In both files:
french fr19998t.tex
This file fr19998t.tex used to be in teTeX in woody, but is no longer
there.
This is correct. However, I assumed that the file was also specified in
woody's language.dat, which is not the case. Therefore it is clear that
you or somebody (or something) must have touched language.dat (unless it
is a leftover from even older versions of teTeX, of which I have no
record of their language.dat).
This seems to be the case - leftover configs from an uninstalled (but not
purged) package from very long ago. Looking at /var/lib/dpkg/status from a
backup taken in February (before the last updates/installs):
Package: tetex-bin
Status: deinstall ok config-files
Priority: optional
Section: tex
Installed-Size: 5898
Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
Version: 1.0.6-7
Config-Version: 1.0.6-7
and
Package: tetex-base
Status: deinstall ok config-files
Priority: optional
Section: tex
Installed-Size: 27546
Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
Version: 1.0-10
Config-Version: 1.0-10
This is so old that even snapshot.debian.net doesn't know about these
versions ;)
Well, we already have some code fixing language.dat, and it shouldn't be
very difficult to add this to it. However, in my opinion this is not an
important bug, because it only occurs only in a very special setup (and
even in woody, using fr19998t.tex didn't make sense, since it just
loaded frhyph.tex). Therefore I'm lowering the severity.
I just manually changed fr19998t.tex to frhyph.tex in my language.dat, and
the install of tetex-bin 2.0.2-27 went through.
I don't think I can expect that the automatic updates are able to update
from every stone old config files found from an intermediate unstable
release nearly three years ago - so perhaps this bug can just be closed.
Thanks for all your help
c'ya
sven
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