Bug#395274: bashism in postinst breaks installation/upgrade

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Hi,

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

> However, the bashism is in an if-clause, and I'm not sure whether the
> shell finds a syntax error while reading the file, or only if it
> actually gets there.  If it does get there, this means the postinst
> script was just about to tell you that it will now exit with an error:
> You should check the files in /etc/texmf/texmf.d, in particular those
> with an *.ucf-dist cousin:  You refused to accept some mandatory changes
> to configuration files.

Umm, I fear this is not the case. I got the same error when upgrading
today and I don't think I've refused any change for TeX packages.
Besides:

/ # lal /etc/texmf/texmf.d
total 52
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-10-14 19:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 2006-10-26 12:27 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6706 2006-10-14 19:30 05TeXMF.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1020 2006-10-14 19:30 15Plain.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3347 2006-10-14 19:30 45TeXinputs.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1240 2006-10-14 19:30 55Fonts.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  163 2006-10-14 19:30 65BibTeX.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  689 2006-10-14 19:30 75DviPS.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2861 2006-10-14 19:30 85Misc.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  333 2006-10-14 19:30 90TeXDoc.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6504 2006-10-14 19:30 95NonPath.cnf
/ #

There is no .ucf-dist file here.

Regards,

-- 
Florent, going to lunch, maybe investigating that later...