Bug#366907: tetex-bin: Fails to configure, updmap failed

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:

> If I change on my real sytem /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf in such a
> way that TEXMFDIST is not definied and call 'dpkg-reconfigure
> tex-common', this change is detected by the posinst script and a debconf
> message appeares telling me that I should fix the defintion of
> TEXMFDIST. For whatever reason I don't get this in my pbuilder. I have
> only managed to have it exit with exit code 1 (ie failure). But this
> deconf message telling me what is wrong never appeared.

Usually pbuilder sets DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive in its chroots.
Have you changed that?

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