Bug#337945: format fails to build in postinst

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org> wrote:

> fmtutil-sys: running `tex -ini   -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex
> &latex jadetex.This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX)
> ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt was written by pdfetex
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>
> The other formats build fine.  Full postinst log is attached.

It tries to build jadetex with the tex engine, but the latex format
(which is loaded by jadetex) was generated with pdfetex - this is the
default since 3.0.  You must have old configuration files and refused
the updates; but in fact they must be very old, because even in sarge
jadetex fails with tex (it must use etex).

What's the output of the following commands, please:

ls -l /etc/texmf/fmt.d/
grep jadetex /etc/texmf/fmt.d/*
grep jadetex /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf

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