Bug#425272: texlive-base-bin: conffile weirdness with xdvi.cfg

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Package: texlive-base-bin
Version: 2007-7
Severity: important

root@riesling:/# dpkg -S xdvi.cfg
texlive-base-bin: /etc/texmf/xdvi/xdvi.cfg
root@riesling:/# ls /etc/texmf/xdvi/
XDvi
root@riesling:/# 

Since xdvi.cfg is missing, xdvi uses no Type1 fonts, only Metafont
fonts, and this makes it horribly slow.

This seems to happen on upgrades, so it might be connected to the
conffile handling things, but this is a pure Debian system without any
manual changes.

Regards, Frank

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages texlive-base-bin depends on:
ii  ed                        0.2-20         The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                     2.3.6.ds1-13   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.5-5          Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii  libpoppler0c2             0.4.5-5.1      PDF rendering library
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-7      X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                   1:1.0.2-4      X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxmu6                   1:1.0.2-2      X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxpm4                   1:3.5.5-2      X11 pixmap library
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.2-2      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  mime-support              3.39-1         MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  perl                      5.8.8-7        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  texlive-common            2007-6         TeX Live: Base component
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-13     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages texlive-base-bin recommends:
ii  perl-tk                      1:804.027-7 Perl module providing the Tk graph

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.5.11     Debian configuration management sy
ii  ucf                           2.0020     Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages texlive-base-bin is related to:
pn  tetex-base                    <none>     (no description available)
ii  tetex-bin                     2007-6     TeX Live: teTeX transitional packa
ii  tetex-extra                   2007-6     TeX Live: teTeX transitional packa

-- debconf information:
  tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
  tex-common/check_texmf_missing:

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