Bug#478992: update-texmf: Basic configuration file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf missing.

["A. Costa" <agcosta@gis.net>]

Package: tex-common
Version: 1.11
Severity: important


During upgrade 'Setup' fails:

    % apt-get install --reinstall tex-common ; echo $?
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 267 not upgraded.
    1 not fully installed or removed.
    After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
    Setting up tex-common (1.11) ...
    Not replacing deleted config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
    Not replacing deleted config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf
    Not replacing deleted config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf
    Not replacing deleted config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf
    Not replacing deleted config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf
    Not replacing deleted config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf
    Not replacing deleted config file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf
    update-texmf: Basic configuration file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf missing.
    Exiting.
    dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure):
     subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
     Errors were encountered while processing:
      tex-common
      E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
      100

Back in 2004 M. Uhlmann had a similar problem:

    tetex installation problem: missing /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/2004/09/msg00026.html


Hope this helps...


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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.5.21     Debian configuration management sy
ii  ucf                           3.006      Update Configuration File: preserv

tex-common recommends no packages.

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  texlive                       2007-13    TeX Live: A decent selection of th

Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
ii  texlive-base-bin           2007.dfsg.1-2 TeX Live: Essential binaries
ii  texlive-common             2007-13       TeX Live: Base component
ii  texlive-doc-base           2007-3        TeX Live: Base documentation

-- debconf information:
* tetex-bin/cnf_name:
  tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
  tex-common/singleuser: false
  tetex-bin/groupperm: true
* tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true
* tetex-bin/groupna/groupname: users
  tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
  tetex-bin/userperm: false
* tetex-bin/hyphen:
* tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
* tetex-bin/use_debconf: true
* tetex-bin/groupname: users