Bug#429753: texlive-commong post-install action fails, blocking tex/latex install

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

Package: texlive-common
Version: 2005.dfsg.3-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


texlive-common won't install because tetex-bin-upgrade isn't
available.  Maybe this is a bug against tex-common instead?

    jeff@aragorn:~ $ sudo apt-get install texlive-common
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
      texlive-common
    0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0B/62.9kB of archives.
    After unpacking 160kB of additional disk space will be used.
    Selecting previously deselected package texlive-common.
    (Reading database ... 100194 files and directories currently installed.)
    Unpacking texlive-common (from .../texlive-common_2005.dfsg.3-1_all.deb) ...
    Setting up texlive-common (2005.dfsg.3-1) ...
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-common.postinst: line 118: /usr/share/tex-common/tetex-bin-upgrade: No such file or directory
    dpkg: error processing texlive-common (--configure):
     subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     texlive-common
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
    jeff@aragorn:~ $ 


But tetex-bin-upgrade should be installed by tex-common:

    jeff@aragorn:~ $ apt-file search tetex-bin-upgrade
    tex-common: usr/share/tex-common/tetex-bin-upgrade
    jeff@aragorn:~ $ 


and tex-common is installed:

    jeff@aragorn:~ $ dpkg -l tex-common
    Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
    | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
    |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
    ||/ Name           Version        Description
    +++-==============-==============-============================================
    ii  tex-common     1.8            Common infrastructure for using and building
    jeff@aragorn:~ $ 


But the file isn't there:

    jeff@aragorn:~ $ dpkg -L tex-common|grep tetex-bin-upgrade
    jeff@aragorn:~ $ 


-- Package-specific info:
If you report an error when running one of the TeX-related binaries 
(latex, pdftex, metafont,...), or if the bug is related to bad or wrong
output, please include a MINIMAL example input file that produces the
error in your report. Don't forget to also include minimal examples of
other files that are needed, e.g. bibtex databases. Often it also helps
to include the logfile. Please, never send included pictures!

If your example file isn't short or produces more than one page of
output (except when multiple pages are needed to show the problem),
you can probably minimize it further. Instructions on how to do that
can be found at

http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini-en.html (english)

or 

http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini.html (german)

##################################
minimal input file


##################################
other files

######################################
 List of ls-R files

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-06-19 22:54 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
######################################
 Config files
Warning: texmf.cnf cannot be found with kpsewhich!
Warning: fmtutil.cnf cannot be found with kpsewhich!
Warning: updmap.cfg cannot be found with kpsewhich!
Warning: language.dat cannot be found with kpsewhich!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages texlive-common depends on:
ii  tex-common                    1.8        Common infrastructure for using an

texlive-common recommends no packages.

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.5.13     Debian configuration management sy
ii  ucf                           3.001      Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages texlive-common is related to:
pn  tetex-base                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  tetex-bin                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  tetex-extra                   <none>     (no description available)

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