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Package: tex-common
Version: 0.36
Severity: serious
My default shell is dash. An upgrade fails with the following message:
Setting up tex-common (0.36) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tex-common.postinst: 91: Syntax error: Bad substitution
dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
tex-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Running checkbashisms /var/lib/dpkg/info/tex-common.postinst yields:
possible bashism in /var/lib/dpkg/info/tex-common.postinst line 91 (${parm/?/pat[/str]}):
pattern=${pattern//\\/} # remove the slashes that escape the $ signs
possible bashism in /var/lib/dpkg/info/tex-common.postinst line 840 (brace expansion):
'\$TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;\$TEXMF/dvips//|\.;\$TEXMF{/fonts/map,}{/\$progname,/pdftex,/dvips,}//'
possible bashism in /var/lib/dpkg/info/tex-common.postinst line 842 (brace expansion):
'\$TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;\$TEXMF/dvips//|\.;\$TEXMF{/fonts/map,}{/\$progname,/pdftex,/dvips,}//'
possible bashism in /var/lib/dpkg/info/tex-common.postinst line 846 (brace expansion):
'/usr/share/texmf-{tetex,texlive}|/usr/share/texmf-{texlive,tetex}'
possible bashism in /var/lib/dpkg/info/tex-common.postinst line 848 (brace expansion):
'/usr/share/texmf-{tetex,texlive}|/usr/share/texmf-{texlive,tetex}'
Cheers,
Michael
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19-rc3
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.7 Debian configuration management sy
ii ucf 2.0016 Update Configuration File: preserv
tex-common recommends no packages.
Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii ucf 2.0016 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.7 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.17.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dialog 1.0-20060221-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii dpkg 1.13.24 package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.1-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-17 GCC support library
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkpathsea4 3.0-23 path search library for teTeX (run
ii libpaper1 1.1.20 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-7 PNG library - runtime
ii libpoppler0c2 0.4.5-5 PDF rendering library
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-17 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libt1-5 5.1.0-2 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 1:1.0.2-4 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.5-2 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii mime-support 3.37-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.1.5-1 The GNU sed stream editor
ii tetex-base 3.0.dfsg.3-1 Basic TeX input files of teTeX
ii ucf 2.0016 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii whiptail 0.52.2-8 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on:
ii tetex-base 3.0.dfsg.3-1 Basic TeX input files of teTeX
ii tetex-bin 3.0-23 The teTeX programs
ii ucf 2.0016 Update Configuration File: preserv
-- debconf information:
tetex-base/olddat: true
tetex-base/fmtutil-failed:
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
tex-common/singleuser: false
tetex-base/oldupdm:
tetex-base/updmap-failed:
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: tex-common
Source-Version: 0.37
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
tex-common, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
tex-common_0.37.dsc
to pool/main/t/tex-common/tex-common_0.37.dsc
tex-common_0.37.tar.gz
to pool/main/t/tex-common/tex-common_0.37.tar.gz
tex-common_0.37_all.deb
to pool/main/t/tex-common/tex-common_0.37_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 395274@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> (supplier of updated tex-common package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)
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Hash: SHA1
Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:14:29 +0200
Source: tex-common
Binary: tex-common
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.37
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian TeX maintainers <debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Description:
tex-common - Common infrastructure for using and building TeX in Debian
Closes: 395274
Changes:
tex-common (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
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* Fix bashism in postinst, thanks to Michael Biebl <biebl@teco.edu>
(closes: #395274) [frank]
Files:
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daf701d16881044532ac44d7cbb2d842 474060 tex optional tex-common_0.37.tar.gz
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