Bug#298315: tetex-bin: Fails to install

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hi Jan,

thank you very much for testing!

Jan Schulz <debian@katzien.de> schrieb:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 2.99.12.20050203-beta-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: experimental
>
> The packages fails to install:
>
> [...]
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to recover:
> Setting up tetex-bin (2.99.12.20050203-beta-1) ...
> Merging information from /etc/texmf/texmf.d/ into /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ...
> done
> Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ... done
> Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time. ...
> Error: tex -ini  -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini' failed

See #298437.

As a workaround, change /etc/texmf/fmt.d/40jadetex.cnf so that it reads:

# jadefmtutil.cnf: configuration file for fmtutil; jade flavor.
#                  invoke with 'fmtutil --cnffile <file>'
#
# format	engine  pattern-file    arguments
jadetex		pdfetex	language.dat	&latex jadetex.ini
pdfjadetex	pdfetex	language.dat	&pdflatex pdfjadetex.ini

This is not the same as suggested in the patch to #298437.  In order to
make the version from the patch sufficient, you additionally need to do

# ln -s pdfetex /usr/bin/etex

which I will do in the next upload of tetex-bin.

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