Bug#400742: Bug#431671: Bug#400742: Bug#431671: piuparts test: fails to install: line 43: update-updmap: command not found
Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:
> I'm not opposed to that, because this is clean. But do you realize that
> if go that route, when a package containing .tex files is upgraded to a
> version that also contains .tex files, then mktexlsr would be run *twice
> in a row*? Once by "old-postrm upgrade" and once by
> "new-postinst configure".
>
> I can very well imagine the gazillion bug reports we would get if we did
> that.
I guess we should actually go that route, but only once dpkg-triggers
are available. Then it's no harm to request the trigger multiple
times.
> new version contains .tex files, you're proposing a system where
> mktexlsr is run twice in a row in most cases. Doesn't look like an
> improvement to the current system to me.
Not at the moment, indeed.
I suggest we remove the wontfix tag and add a block on the dpkg bug
requesting the trigger, what do you think?
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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