Bug#298481: problem solved
Andrew Young <aty@sciences.sdsu.edu> wrote:
> It turned out that the problem was caused by kpathsea not being able
> to find the config files. And the reason was that the box had been
> converted from Red Hat to Debian, using the debtakeover script.
>
> It seems that RH had an actual directory at
>
> /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config
>
> but Debian has a symbolic link there to /etc/texmf/dvips.
Will you report this to the authors of debtakeover?
> Sorry for the confusion; it took a while to discover this hidden
> connection. Maybe install scripts should check to see whether directories
> are real or the expected symbolic links?
We already do this, as long as there were older Debian versions that had
directories in the symlinks' places. But it's not feasible to do it for
every case; and there is no way to force dpkg to convert a symlink to a
directory or the other way round.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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