Bug#419119: texlive-lang-german: fails to install completely

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> Hi Gerd, hi Frank!
>
> On Sam, 14 Apr 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
>> > fmtutil: no format depends on `/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/config/language.dat'.
>> 
>> # sh -x /var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-lang-german.postinst configure 2>&1 | tee postinst.log
>> 
>> And send us the file postinst.log?
>
> Probably not necessary. Gerd: Do you have texlive-latex-base installed?
>
> I assume this is the bug, and not surprising. As lont as no latex
> installed (or related) there is no format depending on language.dat.
>
> We have to work around this, because maybe someone want's to use the
> hyphen patterns only with tex, context or whatever.

But the package already does work around this.  At least I was able to
install texlive-lang-german on top of only tl-common, tl-base and
tl-base-bin in a pbuilder chroot.

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