Bug#334613: tetex-bin: same problem still exists

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Kenward Vaughan <kay_jay@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 3.0-10.1
> Followup-For: Bug #334613
>
>
> I haven't upgraded Sid in several weeks--is it possible that something's
> significantly different in the conf files such that choosing to keep my
> old one is a problem?

Yes, the old conffiles will never work.  If you choose to keep them upon
upgrade, you have to go through the differences and merge the important
changes - especially the setting of the TEXMF variable in
texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf and the variables that form its parts.

As for the conffiles in /etc/texmf/updmap.d, there are some map files
that have been renamed, so the files referenced in the old conffiles are
no longer available, and updmap will fail.  BTW it's new in teTeX-3.0
that updmap fails when map files are missing, previously this was just a
warning. 

> Hmm.  I see in the tetex files under /tmp that the map files have changed 
> locations, and that I shouldn't touch anything as it's a Debian-installed
> package.   How can I fix this?

map files at the old locations, if from a Debian package, should not be
a problem - just wait for the Debian package to be fixed.  If there's
not just a warning, but an error that causes the postinst to fail, you
have local changes in your conffiles and should merge them.

More than this information I cannot give - we need the specific error
messages you get (and of course the commands that caused them).

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