Bug#334660: tetex-bin: doesn't install, "can't read texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf: No such file or directory"

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:17:00PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>> But it would still be interesting to see the listing from the buggy
>> system.  You can use reportbug with some option to write to a file.
[...]
> Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:

thank you, that looks okay.

>> >> And do you think you can reproduce this bug (e.g. by going back to the
>> >> old state of the conffiles) and have the tetex-bin postinst script run
>> >> with set -x in the function sanitize_texmfcnf?
>> >
>> > I cannot even reproduce the bug in a test chroot :-(
>> 
>> If it would be easy to reproduce the bug in a chroot, it wouldn't have
>> made its way into unstable.  I tested many upgrades from sid to
>> experimental.  So if it is reproducible, it's probably on the system
>> where it occurred first. 
>
> To do so is a major effort. I will see what I can do tonight.

It would also be helpful to know which packages are installed that
depend on tetex-{base,bin,extra}, or recommend or suggest one of it.
This could help to reproduce it in a clean environment.

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