Bug#310321: tetex-extra: this bug exists on upgrade from woody to sarge

[Vincent McIntyre <vmcintyr@atnf.csiro.au>]

Package: tetex-extra
Version: 2.0.2c-8
Followup-For: Bug #310321


I just tried to install tetex-extra after aptitude helpfully removed
it instead of upgrading it.

the sequence of events
  vi /etc/apt/sources.list  (convert to 'sarge' source lines)
  aptitude update
  aptitude install aptitude
  aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade
  apt-get install xpdf gv
  apt-get install tetex-extra

  postinst fails on three parts of the install
  `pdfetex -ini -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex *pdflatex.ini' failed
  `pdfetex -ini -jobname=cont-en -progname=context *cont-en.ini' failed
  `pdfetex -ini  -jobname=mptopdf -progname=mptopdf mptopdf.tex' failed

  apt-get install ptex-bin
  apt-get --purge remove ptex-bin
  apt-get install tetex-extra  (attempt to reconfigure)
  dpkg --pending --configure    (fails in same way)
  apt-get --purge remove tetex-extra
  apt-get install tetex-extra

The failure is always the same. In a followup I'll post a gzipped
typescript file that contains the output of tests suggested by the
maintainers in bugs 244601, 269584, 310321, 329658. I can't tell if
my bug is the same problem as those.

Since I'm following up to 310321, I'll include this one test separately:
# grep -i pool /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf 
% and string pools (.pool) for ini{tex,mf,mp}.  It is silly that we have six
TEXPOOL = .;$TEXMF/web2c
MFPOOL = .;$TEXMF/web2c
MPPOOL = .;$TEXMF/web2c
pool_size = 1250000
% Minimum pool space after TeX/MP's own strings; must be at least
% 25000 less than pool_size, but doesn't need to be nearly that large.
% min pool space left after loading .fmt
pool_free = 47500


-- Package-specific info:

######################################
 List of ls-R files

-rw-rw-r--  1 cal103 source 8694 Sep 16 14:04 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r--  1 cal103 source 8694 Sep 16 14:04 /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r--  1 root users 877 Sep 27 13:41 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root root 29 Sep 26 16:29 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on:
ii  dpkg                  1.10.28            Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  gsfonts               8.14+v8.11+urw-0.2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
ii  tetex-base            2.0.2c-8           Basic library files of teTeX
ii  tetex-bin             2.0.2-30           The teTeX binary files
ii  ucf                   1.17               Update Configuration File: preserv

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