Bug#395032: tex-common: fails to install

[Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de>]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 21:24 +0200, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
> Installing tex-common results in four debconf error messages like the
> following:
[...]

Good, now at least the debconf stuff works correctly.

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

Thanks.

[...]
> ++ egrep '^TEXFONTMAPS' /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf
> + line=TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;$TEXMF/dvips//
> + '[' -z 'TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;$TEXMF/dvips//' ']'
> + echo 'TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;$TEXMF/dvips//'
> + egrep -q '.TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;.TEXMF/dvips//'
> egrep: Invalid content of \{\}

This is very odd, since everything looks ok until the error from grep.
What's hapening there is actually quite basic. What do you get when
calling 

echo 'TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;$TEXMF/dvips//' \
     | egrep -q '.TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;.TEXMF/dvips//' ; echo $?

directly?

cheerio
ralf