Bug#395032: tex-common: fails to install

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hi, thanks for you report,

Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net> wrote:

> Package: tex-common
> Version: 0.35
> Severity: normal
>
>
> Hello,
>
> the installation of the package fails with the attached messages.
[...]
> Setting up tex-common (0.35) ...
> egrep: Invalid content of \{\}

This is strange.  

> debconf: Unable to load Debconf::Element::Dialog::Error. Failed because: Can't locate Debconf/Element/Dialog/Error.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at (eval 21) line 2, <GEN6> line 6.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 21) line 2, <GEN6> line 6.

Hm.  It seems we are missing a versioned depends on debconf (>= 1.4.69,
where the error type was introduced).  But your version is *really* old:

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.25     Debian configuration management sy
ii  ucf                           1.06       Update Configuration File: preserv

sarge already has a newer version, 1.4.30.13.

> Error in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf: TEXFONTMAPS incorrectly defined.
> egrep: Invalid content of \{\}

Again this strange message, and I fear it is a separate issue from the
debconf one.

Can you please upgrade debconf to the version in etch or sid?  It will
probably try to configure tex-common in the same run.  If  that fails
again, please edit

/var/lib/dpkg/info/tex-common.postinst

This file has a first line that reads

#!/bin/sh -e

Please change this to

#!/bin/sh -ex

and then run

dpkg --configure -a 2>&1 | tee tex-common.lg

and send us the resulting file tex-common.lg.

Thanks in advance, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)