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

[Vincent.McIntyre@csiro.au]

> >
> Well, even woody never shipped files sitting in /usr/local as this
> would be a policy violation. The question is now, why are these files
> there: did you upgrade your pdfeTeX to a newer version than woody and
> hence needed a newer pool file to generate formats?
> Anyway, removing these files and running mktexlsr should fix your
> problem.


I'm not suggesting that woody installed the files in /usr/local,
but it seems like how it handles the path ordering may have changed.

I reported this issue because I haven't experienced it before, on
other sarge upgrades, with the same setup, done over the last couple
of weeks.

To work around, I'll try unmounting the NFS /usr/local, installing
& remounting. That should work, I'll let you know.


As to why the files are there at all:
We maintain a bunch of unpackaged, non-Debian stuff in /usr/local.
There are some overlaps, such as this one, where we needed newer
versions of tetex and friends.

Obviously you wouldn't be expected to support such configurations,
but perhaps there's a way to handle them "gracefully"?
Perhaps the ordering should try the package's default directory
first, and then the /usr/local (and other locations) later?

Kind regards
Vince