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

[Ming Hua <minghua@ubuntu.com>]

Hi Frank,

Thanks for the fast response.

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 02:47:52PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> 
> (How can I send an e-mail to the original submitter, Mads Olesen?) 

First, Launchpad (the BTS, as well as other things, of Ubuntu)
automatically subscribe a bug reporter to the bug, so any reply to
nnn@bugs.launchpad.net will be sent to the original reporter as well.
In Debian's term, no nnn@ and nnn-submitter@ differentiation.

If you still want to contact the bug reporter, you can get the email
address by first going to the bug page:
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/+bug/122863
Then clicking on the reporter's name (at the top of the page, after
"reported on ... by"), which leads to:
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/~shiyee
The click on the "Overview" tab and go to:
    https://launchpad.net/~shiyee/
Now you can see the email address in the left panel "Confirmed e-mail
addresses".

> So the obvious thing to do would be to increase the versioned depends of
> tex-common to >= 1.8.  But before blindly doing that and claiming that
> this is enough, I'd rather understand better.  Or be able to reproduce
> the problem and find that it goes away when upgrading tex-common first.
> 
> Can someone please try to repeat an upgrade from feisty (in a chroot?)
> to gutsy, with jadetex and xmltex installed before the upgrade?  I guess
> it happens when starting with teTeX, but I may be mistaken and it
> happens with texlive, too.

I see.  I am going to test a feisty->gutsy upgrade this weekend (if
nobody beats me) and report back.

Ming
2007.07.18