Bug#244601: tetex-bin: package fails to configure: Error: `mpost -ini -jobname=metafun -progname=mpost metafun.mp' failed

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

 Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> On 19.04.04 Branden Robinson (branden@debian.org) wrote:
>
> Dear Branden,
>
>> Package: tetex-bin
>> Version: 2.0.2-12
>> Severity: grave
>>
> http://bugs.debian.org/244601
>
>> The postinst fails the same way over and over again.
>>
> As found out in this bug report it was caused by a file, which did
> not vanishe, although the package, which provided it, was removed.
> No, it was not a config file. Further the problem was never reported
> again,

That's not correct: This bug is merged with three more.

> so it might have been a problem specifically to your system
> (perhaps and old(?) dpkg bug).

 I somehow suspect a dpkg bug together with a strange corner case of
 whatever.

> I suggest to close it now. What do you think?

 I don't care for teTeX bugs very much, but maybe we should just keep it
 open so that sarge users who upgrade to etch have a chance to see it.

 Regards, Frank

-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)