Bug#354604: tetex-bin: way too much output during package upgrade

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 3.0-14
> Severity: normal
>
> On 2 different machines I got 400+ lines of output while upgrading
> tetex-bin; attached.  I would expect a package to output not more than
> 25 lines or so of output for a typical configuration.
>
> Setting up tetex-bin (3.0-14) ...
>
> [1]+  Stopped                 sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> pryzbyj@cyberia:~$ fg
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time. ...
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
> mktexfmt: running `pdfetex -ini   -jobname=latex -progname=latex -translate-file
> =cp227.tcx *latex.ini' ...
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX)

This is not tetex's fault, but must be fixed in some package that
install additional formats that depend on LaTeX.  IIRC jadetex is one of
the "offenders".  Which packages that depend on tetex-bin (or -extra) do
you have installed?

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