Bug#353474: tetex-bin: Fails to install

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 06:48:30PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Aha, so the problem was either a too-old tex-common that didn't contain
>> the necessary config options, or a too-old tex-common that didn't do the
>> proper checks.
>> 
>> Does that mean we can close the bug?
>
> I guess so.  It might be nice to have a hint when it fails like this,
> such as "Make sure you took the new conffiles in /etc/wherever"

After upgrading tex-common, it should have displayed a text like:

    echo
    echo "An essential entry is missing in $file:"
    echo "No setting of $variable."
    echo "teTeX will not work without it, you need to fix your configuration"
    echo "files.  The version of $file that is provided by the package"
    echo "should be available as ${file}.dpkg-dist"
    echo
    echo "Exiting."

Didn't you see that?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)