Bug#302827: marked as done (tetex-bin: fails to install on several architectures)
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From: Matthijs Mohlmann <matthijs@cacholong.nl>
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Subject: tetex-bin: fails to install on several architectures
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Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-27
Severity: normal
Hi,
tetex-bin could not be installed on several architectures including:
mipsel, s390, alpha and powerpc. See for example this buildd log:
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=pdns&ver=2.9.17-8&arch=powerpc&stamp=1112391358&file=log&as=raw
Regards,
Matthijs
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.47 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.13.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.10.27 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-12 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libkpathsea3 2.0.2-27 path search library for teTeX (run
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-12 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.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii mime-support 3.31-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.4-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.1.4-2 The GNU sed stream editor
ii tetex-base 2.0.2c-7 Basic library files of teTeX
ii ucf 1.17 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
tetex-bin/updmap-failed:
tetex-bin/hyphen: french[=patois], ngerman[=naustrian-neue_Rechtschreibung]
tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
tetex-bin/upd_map: true
tetex-bin/cnf_name:
tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
tetex-bin/use_debconf: false
tetex-bin/fmtutil-failed:
tetex-bin/groupname: users
tetex-bin/userperm: false
tetex-bin/groupperm: true
tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true
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From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
To: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>, 302827-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#302827: tetex-bin: fails to install on several architectures
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On 06.04.05 Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org) wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 01:33:19PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
Hi,
> > Reassigning to jadetex accordingly for further investigation;
> > hopefully this is a known bug in previous versions of jadetex
> > that have since been fixed.
>=20
> ... nope, guessed wrong here. Reassigning back to tetex-bin.
>=20
> This bug has been fixed in tetex-bin 2.0.2-28:
>=20
> tetex-bin (2.0.2-28) unstable; urgency=3Dlow
>=20
> * The maintainer scripts now will again fail if the format or map
> file generation fails. This has been turned into a debconf
> note in version 2.0.2-19 as an emergency action, and must be
> dropped now the packages proved to be stable.
> =20
> This might reveal some bugs that had been hidden so far, and
> might help debug #302827. [frank]
>=20
> * In postinst, fix language.dat if it points to an old french
> hyphenation file that we no longer ship, and which only loaded
> the new one even in woody, thanks to Sven Koch
> <haegar@sdinet.de> (closes: #302286) [frank]
>=20
> -- Frank K=FCster <frank@debian.org> Mon, 4 Apr 2005 20:41:26 +0200
>=20
> Frank, this install failure was *caused by the use of debconf*. The
> debconf-devel(7) explanation for INPUT (db_input) says:
>=20
> Debconf decides if the question is actually
> displayed, based on its priority, and whether the
> user has seen it before, and which frontend is being
> used. If the question will not be displayed, debconf
> replies with code 30.
>=20
> You were not checking the return code of db_input; therefore, the
> maintainer script was exiting with code 30 on the buildds.
>=20
> The actual format creation failures all seem to have been caused by
> stale config files on the system from previous versions of jadetex;
> but the tetex-bin install failure was caused by this misuse of
> debconf.
>=20
> If you are going to readd the debconf note at a later date, please
> make sure you fix this usage problem. (If what you really want is
> to force the display of the debconf note, you should be using
> db_fset seen.) If you are not going to readd the debconf note in
> the future, then this bug can be closed.
>=20
No, we're not going to do this. It was a temporary workaround, which
was intended to be removed later, which was done in -28.
Thanks for investigation! Closing.
Regards,
Hilmar
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