Bug#419451: Bug#419381: texlive-base-bin: xdvi fails to work after upgrading from teTeX

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

forcemerge 419381 419451
thanks

Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.unipd.it> wrote:

> Package: texlive-base-bin
> Version: 2007-3
> Severity: important
>
> As the subject says: on my system, after upgrading from the old tetex
> packages, xdvi doesn't work any more:
>
> daniel@frobnitz:~/research$ xdvi teach.dvi
> Can't exec "xdvi.bin": No such file or directory at /usr/bin/xdvi line 87.
> xdvi: xdvi.bin terminated abnormally: -1
> daniel@frobnitz:~/research$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/xdvi.bin
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2007-03-07 03:02 /etc/alternatives/xdvi.bin -> /usr/bin/xdvi.real
> daniel@frobnitz:~/research$ /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display xdvi.bin
> xdvi.bin - status is manual.
>  link currently points to /usr/bin/xdvi.real
> /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw.bin - priority 30
> Current `best' version is /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw.bin.
>
> I didn't do any manual configuration of that alternative before upgrading,
> though.  So the postinst probably needs to have some code handling the
> upgrade case for that alternative, either in texlive-base-bin or in
> tetex-bin.

I think we should first remove the alternative sdvi.real, that would
solve the problem. 

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