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:

> I guess you rembember that, but just to be sure, and for everybody
> reading this bug report:  If one has a tex-common tree checked out,
> either in $tex_common_dir as specified in debian/rules, or elsewhere but
> $tex_common_dir is set properly in the environment, then the versions in
> tetex-base and -bin will be updated from the version in tex-common.

Ah. I knew there was some way to have the update automatically done, but
last time I did that, it took me a few minutes to figure out where to
put a symlink, and this symlink was in an ugly place, so I had to remove
it afterwards... Which is why I opted for a simultaneous check-in of the
three files this time. But setting $tex_common_dir in the environment is
even easier, and I wasn't aware of this possibility. Thanks.

-- 
Florent