Bug#421969: More analysis on the strange "cannot upgrade" bug

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Hi Sam,

can you please post the output of

dpkg -l texlive-base

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> So we have:
> 	- jadetex bug
> 	- etex bug
>
> The former is bug #419026 (texlive-lang-cyrillic, should be closed) and
> bug #419020 (jadetex), already closed.
>
> The later is the stupid existence of 01tetex.cnf in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/
>
> Didn't we solve this one already in one of the tex-common releases?

texlive-common.postinst:

# remove old stuff from tetex:
rm -f /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10tetex-base.cfg
rm -f /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf
rm -f /etc/texmf/tex/language.d/00tetex.cnf

Moreover, this file should have a magic header and have no effect if it
is still present.

[Sidenote: I guess rm -f is not the right thing, since those files could
contain important local configuration.  Should we rather append an
extension?] 

The etex problem in the log is as follows:

(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/plain/config/etex.ini
! I can't find file `etex.src'.
l.2 \input etex.src

Maybe this is just one more case of the #423143 type, texlive-base
hasn't been updated, but texlive-pdfetex is already removed?

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