Re: Call for testing ...

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

>> dpkg -r texlive-base
>> dpkg --configure -a # or better --configure texlive-base-bin
>> apt-get install texlive-base
>> 
>> repairs the system.  After that, all seems well except one thing which
>> is also in the current packages, normal severity and deserves a separate
>> bug.
>
> This is strange, very strange...
> modes.mf is in texlive-base, so if there is no texlive-base installed,
> then *still* texlive-base-bin should break at configure time because it
> tries to build the mf format.
>
> Are you sure ???

Yes, I am, I tried that several times:  All the ini files (mf.ini,
etex.ini etc.) are in texlive-base.

I guess the solution to our problem is to move modes.mf to
texlive-base-bin? 

Regards, Frank

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