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

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Vincent McIntyre <vmcintyr@atnf.csiro.au> wrote:

> 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

Thanks for the detailed typescript.  The error message that causes all
these three jobs to fail is 

! pdfetex.pool doesn't match; tangle me again (or fix the path).

So we need to know whether the right pool file is found.  What is the
output of

  kpsewhich --progname=pdfetex pdfetex.pool
  ls -l `kpsewhich --progname=pdfetex pdfetex.pool`
  dpkg -S `kpsewhich --progname=pdfetex pdfetex.pool`
  md5sum `kpsewhich --progname=pdfetex pdfetex.pool`

Thank you in advance,
Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer