Bug#439205: texlive-latex-base: upgrading package fails

[Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de>]

Package: texlive-latex-base
Version: 2007-11
Severity: grave


Upgrading the package from 2005.dfsg.3-1 fails:


Preparing to replace texlive-latex-base 2005.dfsg.3-1 (using
..../texlive-latex-base_2007-11_all.deb) ...
Reinstalling deleted mandatory conffile color.cfg
cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/texlive-base/color.cfg': No such file or
directory
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-latex-base_2007-11_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1


I've never deleted color.cfg, no clue why it does not exist where it
should exist, but the cp obviously fails.


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 List of ls-R files

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 831 2007-08-23 11:34 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2007-07-07 01:58 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-05-20 12:37 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-05-20 12:37 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
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 Config files
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2007-07-07 01:58 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3991 2007-08-23 11:34 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5639 2007-08-23 11:34 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4481 2007-08-23 11:34 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.7-vs2.2.0 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages texlive-latex-base depends on:
ii  texlive-common            2005.dfsg.3-1  TeX Live: Base component
ii  texlive-pdfetex           2005.dfsg.2-12 TeX Live: pdfTeX

texlive-latex-base recommends no packages.

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.5.14     Debian configuration management sy
ii  ucf                           3.001      Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages texlive-latex-base 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: