Bug#366858: mktextfm should not fail if /var/cache/fonts i unwritable

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:

> reassign 366858 tex-common
> thanks
>
>> The particular case that bit me was building a documentation package
>> in pbuilder.  The default pbuilder user in the chroot is not in the
>> users group, and so any (La)TeX processing during the build process
>> fails.
>
> There used to be a bug in tex-common that caused this, but now it's
> suppossed to be fixed.  We should investigate why it still happens with
> tex-common 0.22.
>
> Can you please export DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer to the pbuilder
> environment, repeat the build attempt and send us the resulting logfile? 

I assume that this is the same as #354113, and will close it in the
changelog of the next upload.

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