Bug#302286: tetex-bin: postinst fails with Error: `tex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' failed

[Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@sdinet.de>]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Frank Küster wrote:

> > > Yes, I have both a language.dat, and a language.dat.postinst-bak

> > In both files:
> >
> > french		fr19998t.tex
> >
> > This file fr19998t.tex used to be in teTeX in woody, but is no longer
> > there.
>
> This is correct.  However, I assumed that the file was also specified in
> woody's language.dat, which is not the case.  Therefore it is clear that
> you or somebody (or something) must have touched language.dat (unless it
> is a leftover from even older versions of teTeX, of which I have no
> record of their language.dat).

This seems to be the case - leftover configs from an uninstalled (but not 
purged) package from very long ago. Looking at /var/lib/dpkg/status from a 
backup taken in February (before the last updates/installs):

  Package: tetex-bin
  Status: deinstall ok config-files
  Priority: optional
  Section: tex
  Installed-Size: 5898
  Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
  Version: 1.0.6-7
  Config-Version: 1.0.6-7

and

  Package: tetex-base
  Status: deinstall ok config-files
  Priority: optional
  Section: tex
  Installed-Size: 27546
  Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
  Version: 1.0-10
  Config-Version: 1.0-10

This is so old that even snapshot.debian.net doesn't know about these
versions ;)

> Well, we already have some code fixing language.dat, and it shouldn't be
> very difficult to add this to it.  However, in my opinion this is not an
> important bug, because it only occurs only in a very special setup (and
> even in woody, using fr19998t.tex didn't make sense, since it just
> loaded frhyph.tex).  Therefore I'm lowering the severity.

I just manually changed fr19998t.tex to frhyph.tex in my language.dat, and 
the install of tetex-bin 2.0.2-27 went through.

I don't think I can expect that the automatic updates are able to update 
from every stone old config files found from an intermediate unstable 
release nearly three years ago - so perhaps this bug can just be closed.

Thanks for all your help

c'ya
sven

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