Bug#560854: tex-common: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 - fmtutil-sys failed

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 12.12.09 Michael Prokop (mika@debian.org) wrote:

Hi,

> If it helps in debugging the depends chain:
> 
> tex-common and texlive-binaries where chosen to be installed for
> dvi2tty (which is in Replaces of texlive-binaries)
> 
So the situation before was: tex-common + dvi2tty installed. During
the upgrade texlive-binaries was pulles in and both packages tried to
build format files, which failed as texlive-base was not there.
Indeed: none of these package declare a dep on texlive-base.

Norbert: is this intended?

H.
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