Bug#377581: tetex-base: Creating of missing formats failed with dpkg --configure started in /usr/bin

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

>> What about creating a temporary directory under /tmp and working in it?
>
> That would certainly be feasible.  The question is whether this is worth
> the effort.  If someone comes up with a tested patch, I have no
> objections against applying it.

I'm working on it.

Note: the relevant code is in common.functions.in and therefore will
need to propagate to a lot of packages (tetex-base, -bin and -extra at
least IIRC) before the bug is really fixed.

-- 
Florent