Bug#369683: tetex-base: fails to install: missing dependency?

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 02:59:49PM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be> wrote:
> 
> >> Setting up tetex-base (3.0-18) ...
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postinst: line 891: update-language: command not found
> 
> % dpkg -S update-language
> tex-common: /usr/sbin/update-language
> tex-common: /usr/share/man/man8/update-language.8.gz
> 
> And tetex-base Depends on tex-common (>= 0.12). Therefore, if
> update-language is not available when tetex-base.postinst is run, I'd
> say there is something very wrong on your buildd.

Looks like it:

arrakis:~# dpkg -l tex-common
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
pi  tex-common     0.23           Common infrastructure for using and building
arrakis:~# dpkg -L tex-common
/etc/texmf
/etc/texmf/fmt.d
/etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tex.cnf
/etc/texmf/language.d
/etc/texmf/language.d/00tex.cnf
/etc/texmf/texmf.d
/etc/texmf/updmap.d
/var/lib/texmf/tex
/var/lib/texmf/tex/generic
/var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config
arrakis:~# 

Not sure what's going on here.

I'm purging tex-common inside the chroot right now, I'll requeue the
build once that's done.

> In the build logs you pointed to, there is no mention of tex-common. So,
> either it was already installed, but broken (since update-language
> wasn't found),

Exactly.

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