Bug#388115: tetex-base: postinst fails, can not upgrade

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi all!

I cannot actually check something since I am in Georgia and far away from any of my computers, kut I have some questions/comments:

 ..... Original Message .......
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:07:33 +0200 "Frans Pop" <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
>Looks like the 40jadetex.cnf.dpkg-new is there because jadetex cannot jet 
>be configured and so the old version of the config file is still used.

Yes, this is true, it seems to be like this. BUT: Why is the snippet at all included in the fmtutil.cnf file??? The new update-* code ??? added (who was it?) should make sure that the snippets with a .dpkg-new file are *not* included. 

So could it be that tetex-* doesnt call update-fmtutil at the beginning of the postinst script? this would explain why this happened, at least this is my semi-qualified opinion from the crystal-ball ...

Bye bye, I am back on Monday for checking stuff.

Ahh yes Ralf: I assume that the original bug report did go to the maintainer. What I dont understand is why the NMU is numbered -7?

Best wishes

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>                    Università di Siena
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org>                         Debian TeX Group
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