Bug#395032: tex-common: fails to install

[Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>]

Hello Ralf,

reporting a bug to this package turned out to be a pleasant experience,
thanks much!

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:33:49AM +0200, Ralf Stubner wrote:
> echo 'TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;$TEXMF/dvips//' \
>      | egrep -q '.TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;.TEXMF/dvips//' ; echo $?

ibr@zaisan:~$ echo 'TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;$TEXMF/dvips//' |egrep '.TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;.TEXMF/dvips//'; echo $?
egrep: Invalid content of \{\}
2
ibr@zaisan:~$ which egrep
/bin/egrep
ibr@zaisan:~$ dpkg -S /bin/egrep
grep: /bin/egrep
ibr@zaisan:~$ dpkg -l grep
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  grep           2.4.2-3        GNU grep, egrep and fgrep.


Installing 2.5.1.ds2-6 solved the problem, you might wish to add the
respective dependency.


With kind regards,
Baurzhan.