Bug#361375: tetex-base: [dvips] Unable to create fonts for commands from the textcomp package
Thomas Braun <braun@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Because of the getting informed.
> I issued "apt-get install --reinstall tex-common" and got nothing which said
> that I can expect problems.
This won't show you more debconf messages than before. If you use
dpkg-reconfigure, maybe with appropriate priority settings (-pmedium or
-plow), the current package will show you a message.
> In /usr/share/doc/tex-common/README.Debian is this explicitly written down,
> but some message from postinst or a mail to the system account would be
> better.
When you reported the bug, your version of tex-common was already 0.20.
This should have shown you a debconf message with a wording that should
be quite clear. On the other hand, if you continuously upgraded and
also had earlier versions of tex-common installed (0.16 to 0.19), the
problem was caused by an earlier installation/upgrade, where the debconf
logic was flawed, and the wording wasn't clear.
If that's true, I think we can close the bug.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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