Bug#427859: lmodern fails to configure on upgrade, dpkg error

[Itai Seggev <is+debian@cs.hmc.edu>]

Package: lmodern
Version: 1.010x-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I upgraded a whole flotilla of packages today. I didn't mean upgrade an
TeX packages as I'm waiting on TeXLive to stabalize, but apparently aptitude
decided to upgrade lmodern (or maybe I was just careless). At any rate, even
though this version is in lenny, the install died a horrible flaming death: 

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up lmodern (1.010x-3) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time...
updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/updmap.wEc16557
Please include this file if you report a bug.

Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d
causes updmap-sys to fail.  Please check for files with extension
.dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in this directory

dpkg: error processing lmodern (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  lmodern
  Press return to continue.



120:het:~/research/causal_sets/c_code> sudo cat /tmp/updmap.wEc16557
updmap-sys: This is updmap-sys, version 1107552857-debian
updmap-sys: using transcript file `/var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap-sys.log'

updmap is creating new map files using the following configuration:

  config file: `/var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg'
  dvips output directory: `/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap'
  pdftex output directory: `/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap'
  dvipdfm output directory: `/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfm/updmap'

  prefer outlines: `true'
  texhash enabled: `false'
  download standard fonts (dvips): `false'
  download standard fonts (pdftex): `true'
  download standard fonts (dvipdfm): `true'

updmap-sys: Scanning for LW35 support files

!!! ERROR! The map file `dvips35.map' has not been found at all.

    Either put this file into the right place or remove the
    reference from the configuration files - see
    update-updmap(1).

121:het:~/research/causal_sets/c_code>


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=he_IL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=he_IL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lmodern depends on:
ii  defoma                       0.11.10-0.1 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f
ii  tex-common                   1.0.1       Common infrastructure for using an
ii  xfonts-utils                 1:1.0.1-1   X Window System font utility progr

lmodern recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information