Bug#435812: Cannot install texlive-latex-base due to post-installation script failure
Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com> wrote:
> The "american ushyph1.tex" line comes from the file:
>
> /etc/texmf/language.d/00tetex.cnf
>
> A "dpkg --search" reveals this file was provided by tetex-base.
This is strange, and might point to a bug in our packaging (or in
dpkg). In etch this file existed, but since you have updated to lenny's
or sid's version:
> ii tetex-base 2007-10 TeX Live: teTeX transitional package
it should be gone. Hm, what does dpkg do if the removed file was
locally modified? Maybe that's the reason.
> Furthermore, comments in the file
>
> /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
>
> say that ushyph1.tex MUST be the first file loaded, so I can't really
> comment it.
The problem behind this is that tetex had an aliases file, stating that
ushyph1.tex is provided by hyphen.tex, but that information is missing
now.
> I'd have to comment in /etc/texmf/language.d/ anyway,
> and those files are owned by tetex-base, so it really means something
> is broken in tetex-base.
>
> Do you agree?
Not in tetex-base, which is an empty dummy package right now, but indeed
there's a bug in the upgrade procedure. I'll test this tomorrow with a
changed 00tetex.cnf.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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