Re: [Bug 122863] Re: package texlive-base-bin 2007-11 failed to install/upgrade: post-installation script spawns thousands of processes

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> What wonders me is that this did happen at all.
>
> As far as I see, since the tex-common 1.8 was introduced definitely
> *before* the tried upgrade, it should have been selected for the
> upgrade and the whole stuff shouldn't have happened.
>
> Frank, do you have any explanation for this? And whether this could
> happen to etch->lenny upgrade, too?

I don't really have an explanation.  However, we do *not* have
sufficiently strict Depends to force the upgrade of tex-common before we
try to create formats.  texlive-common requires tex-common >= 1.4, and
texlive-base-bin (for example) only requires texlive-common > 2007.

I'm not sure what texlive and tex-common versions feisty had, but
if I assume it resembles sarge (tex-common 1.0*), *then* I do not have
an explanation. 

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