Re: package testing procedures

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> Running several of the test I found a problem, which ATM I have no idea
> how to cope with:
>
> When I apt-get install texinfo tetex-base tetex-bin on a fresh system
> (no upgrade) I get ...
[...]
> with texinfo_4.8-1:
> -------------------
> unpack tetex-bin
> unpack texinfo
> unpack tetex-base
> setup tetex-bin
> 	-> breaks since /etc/texmf/updmap.d/00updmap.cfg is not
> 	   existent since tetex-base is not configured
>
>
> Here we have
> 	tetex-bin -> tetex-base -> texinfo -> tetex-bin (circle)
>
> So dpkg tries to first configure tetex-bin, which breaks.

I guess we have to upload a tetex-base package first which does not try
to build texinfo formats, and does not depend on texinfo.  I'll have a
look at it this afternoon.

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