Bug#382861: Updating Sarge teTeX to etch/sid TeX live ... help

[Gernot Salzer <salzer@logic.at>]

> fmtutil: running `omega -ini   -jobname=omega -progname=omega omega.ini' ...
> /usr/bin/fmtutil: line 357: omega: command not found
> Error: `omega -ini  -jobname=omega -progname=omega omega.ini' failed

I got exactly this error, then installed texlive-omega, and the error
was gone. However, after generating the omega package, fmtutil now
failed with a similar error: "mfw: command not found, Error: `mfw -ini ...`"

So it's not just omega, but a more general problem.

Regards,
   Gernot

P.S.: This happened after installing+deinstalling (but not purging) tetex3.

> 
> 
> This looks like somehow omega.ini is still present, and there's an entry
> in fmtutil.cnf.  And yes, here it is:
> 
> # kpsewhich omega.ini
> /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/plain/config/omega.ini
> 
> This should be moved to texlive-omega (probably upstream, in the tpm).
> (aleph.ini maybe also?)
> 
> However, that doesn't explain the bug, since texlive has no entry for
> omega in fmtutil.snippets.  The problem is that sarge had 00tetex.cnf,
> and this file is still there, without a magic comment.
> 
> When tetex is updated, this file disappears.  It seems that dpkg notices
> that it is unchanged and missing in the new package (I guess this is
> new?).  However, when texlive is installed, tetex is not upgraded, but
> removed - and configuration files are left on the system.
> 
> 
> So this particular bug can be solved by moving omega.ini to
> texlive-omega.  However, I'd rather have a general solution for the
> problem of leftover conffiles from sarge.
> 
> Regards, Frank
> -- 
> Frank Küster
> Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
> Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)