Bug#420551: fmtutil-sys failure on ARM on dist-upgrade

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:

> Package: texlive-base-bin
> Version: 2005.dfsg.2-12
>
> I just tried to upgrade my ARM's chroot from sid from a few weeks ago
> to current etch and texlive-latex-base fails to install.

What's the output of "date" in the chroot?

>From the log:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
! You are attempting to make a LaTeX format from a source file
! That is more than five years old.
!
! If you enter <return> to scroll past this message then the format
! will be built, but please consider obtaining newer source files
! before continuing to build LaTeX.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

! LaTeX source files more than 5 years old!.
l.545 ...aTeX source files more than 5 years old!}
                                                  
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>

In the code, it computes the difference between the system date as
pdfTeX sees it and the filedate 2005/12/01, and seems to find that it is
more than 5 years...

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