Bug#323597: broken tar file sytem for tetex-base 3.0-7
Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
> Package: tetex-base
> Version: 3.0-7
> Severity: normal
>
> The backported tetex-base package from
> http://people.debian.org/~frank/teTeX-3.0/ seems to be broken. On a
> sarge system, dpkg fails with
>
> defektes Tar-Dateisystem - Packetarchiv ist defekt: Erfolg
>
> The 'Erfolg' looks strange here, but the package is not unpacked.
I just tried this here, and there were no problems. Please try to
download the file again and check whether it works then. The md5sum of
the deb should be:
$ md5sum src/Packages/pbuilder-result/tetex-base_3.0-7_all.deb
0c2cdd321b8f5d67edca8b6804d7fd3f src/Packages/pbuilder-result/tetex-base_3.0-7_all.deb
> The faild update of tetex-base might be the reason why the tetex-extra
> update fails with the attempt to overwrite
> /var/lib/tex-common/fontmap-cfg/tetex-extra.list
> which is owned by tetex-base(!).
It was a bug that it was in tetex-base, and indeed I only tested
upgrading from unstable, not from older experimental versions. Although
I just forgot to add a "Replaces: tetex-base", now that we have this
situation I'm not sure whether I should add it just to support upgrades
from experimental to experimental. As a workaround, simply remove tetex
(you can do this with dpkg and --force-depends if you don't want to
remove the stuff depending on it) and install again.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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