Bug#316245: tetex-bin: postinst failure while building etex and pdfetex formats
> This bug is pretty confusing, but I think that it is either due to some
> particular problem on your machine (hardware or improper user action),
I vote for the latter since my hardware is extremely stable.
> or due to a problem when upgrading between particular versions in
> experimental that I haven't tested.
I may have skipped some experimental release.
> I only tested upgrades from sid,
> and for the younger versions the upgrade from the previous version
> (althought the latter sometimes required manual action).
If the sid->experimental upgrade is fine then this is good enough for
me.
> > If I reinstall tetex-base on a system
> > where /usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/config/language.def exists, I get:
>
> you mean where it exists as a symlink? What about the target?
The correct one, that is:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2005-09-09 14:12 /usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/config/language.def -> /etc/texmf/plain/language.def
> Frankly speaking, if there _is_ a bug in the experimental packages that
> causes a circular symlink, we would fix it in the sense that it does no
> longer do that; but I wouldn't spend much time on fixing existing
> experimental systems.
I agree.
> That's why the package is in experimental - you've been warned.
I am used to bugs in sid or experimental :>.
> It seems as if it is a problem with upgrading between experimental
> versions. Since we don't really support this, there's no need to wait
> for testing.
>
> Just remove /etc/texmf/plain and reinstall again.
Thank you for this clear statement. I will fix my system and close this
bug...
Thanks again for your work on tetex !
--
Laurent Bonnaud.
http://www.lis.inpg.fr/pages_perso/bonnaud/
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