Bug#309152: tipa: upgrade problems related to tetex-bin

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 04:59:54PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> [2005-05-15 00:24]:
> 
> > If tipa and tetex-bin from woody are installed and I upgrade to
> > sarge the upgrade fails, if the new tetex-bin is configured after
> > the new tipa:
> > 
> > Setting up tipa (1.2-1) ...
> > texhash: Updating /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R...
> > texhash: Updating /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R...
> > texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
> > texhash: Updating /var/spool/texmf/ls-R...
> > texhash: Done.
> > updmap: config file updmap.cfg not found.
> > dpkg: error processing tipa (--configure):
> >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > 
> > This is probably because /usr/bin/updmap already exists but
> > updmap.cfg not yet.
> > 
> > There are usually several solutions to this:
> > 1) tipa could check both for the executable and the config file before
> >    calling updmap
> > 2) updmap could fail gracefully if tetex-bin isn't configured yet.
> > 3) tipa could depend on tetex-bin
> 
> I will make tipa depend on tetex-bin.  An upload should happen RSN.

Oh, and please can someone liaise with debian-release@lists.debian.org
about this!

   Julian