Bug#462610: texlive-xetex: Missing `xelatex.fmt' file

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

severity 462610 normal
title 462610 texlive-xetex misses dep/recom on texlive-latex-base
tags 462610 + unreproducible
thanks

Hi Khaled,

On Sa, 26 Jan 2008, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> Severity: grave

Don't overdue it, from the definition:
	makes the package in question unusable or mostly so, or causes
	data loss, or introduces a security hole allowing access to the
	accounts of users who use the package.

> Justification: renders package unusable

Wrong, you still can use plain xetex and build your own format. So it is
definitely working.

> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt
> I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'!

That looks very suspicious. After the installation of texlive-xetex the
latex format should have been created ..

I guess you don't have texlive-latex-base installed. 

There seems to be a depends/recommends missing in texlive-xetex. Please
install texlive-latex-base and call dpkg-reconfigure texlive-xetex, that
should do it.

Best wishes

Norbert

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