Bug#302286: tetex-bin: postinst fails with Error: `tex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' failed

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 31.03.05 Sven-Haegar Koch (haegar@sdinet.de) wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Frank Küster wrote:

Hi,

> >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 ;)
> 
I just wonder that you have tetex-base_1.0-10 in state rc and at the
same time tetex-base_2.0.2c-7 in state ii on the same machine. Do you
have an explanation for that?

Hilmar
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