urgent question concerning order of autoscript debhelper snippets

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Joey, hi all,

I recently built a font package which uses dh_installtex, and upon
testing it completely broke with a message that surprised me, since it
wasn't there in former times.

TO cut long discussions short, in dh_installtex we do:

 autoscript($package, "postinst", "SNIPPET1-INST", "...");
 autoscript($package, "postrm",   "SNIPPET1-RM", "...");
 if ($dothefullstuff) {
   autoscript($package, "postinst", "SNIPPET2-INST", "...");
   autoscript($package, "postrm",   "SNIPPET2-RM", "...");
 }

The snippet coming from the first invocation of autoscript for POSTRM,
i.e., SNIPPET1-RM defines a function which we use later on
in the snippet for SNIPPET2-RM.

Now I found that strange enought the *ORDER* these snippets are included
into the final postrm file is reversed, so we got a bash scripting error
about a not-defined function.

In postinst we have
	...
	SNIPPET1-INST
	SNIPPET2-INST
while in postrm we have
	...
	SNIPPET2-RM
	SNIPPET1-RM

I would like to know:
- was that a change introduced at a certain point, accidently or not?
- is this going to stay like this?

In this case we have to rebuild *ALL* calling dh_installtex, which are
by now quite a lot. At least all the texlive packages have to be rebuilt
and reuploaded, after a fixed tex-common enters unstable.

Thanks for any explanation, also in case I am completely wrong ...

Best wishes

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>        Vienna University of Technology
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org>                         Debian TeX Group
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