Bug#330278: tetex-extra: Failed package install and missing dependency

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> Well, this is not OK. After purging teTeX /etc/texmf should be empty.

Indeed, but it isn't:

Purging configuration files for tetex-base ...
dpkg - warning: while removing tetex-base, directory `/etc/texmf/latex' not empty so not removed.
Removing tex-common ...
Purging configuration files for tex-common ...
dpkg - warning: while removing tex-common, directory `/etc/texmf/fmt.d' not empty so not removed.
dpkg - warning: while removing tex-common, directory `/etc/texmf' not empty so not removed.

> This needs work. 

root@alhambra:/# find /etc/texmf/
/etc/texmf/
/etc/texmf/pdftex
/etc/texmf/pdftex/pdftex.cfg.postinst-bak
/etc/texmf/latex
/etc/texmf/latex/lambda.ini
/etc/texmf/fmt.d
/etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tetex.cnf
/etc/texmf/oldstuff_unused
/etc/texmf/oldstuff_unused/latex.ini
/etc/texmf/oldstuff_unused/cyrtex.ini
/etc/texmf/oldstuff_unused/cyrtxinf.ini
/etc/texmf/oldstuff_unused/cyramstx.ini
/etc/texmf/oldstuff_unused/etex.ini
/etc/texmf/oldstuff_unused/platex.ini
/etc/texmf/oldstuff_unused/cont-de.ini
/etc/texmf/oldstuff_unused/cont-en.ini
/etc/texmf/oldstuff_unused/cont-it.ini
/etc/texmf/oldstuff_unused/cont-nl.ini
/etc/texmf/oldstuff_unused/cont-ro.ini
/etc/texmf/oldstuff_unused/cont-uk.ini
/etc/texmf/oldstuff_unused/cont-cz.ini
/etc/texmf/oldstuff_unused/README
/etc/texmf/language.dat.postinst-bak

lambda.ini should be moved away (oldstuff or delete) at
installation/upgrade time, the others upon purge.

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