Bug#600013: tex-common: dpkg-reconfigure doesn't work on packages calling update-texmf-config
Package: tex-common
Version: 2.08
Severity: important
File: /usr/sbin/update-texmf-config
This may even be a violation of a must directive in policy, but not in
the literal sense: "dpkg-reconfigure" is not mentioned in policy.
In a clean chroot, after installing texlive-base:
/# dpkg-reconfigure texlive-base
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
dpkg-trigger: dpkg-trigger must be called from a maintainer script (or with a --by-package option)
Currently this is no problem, because we have nothing to
reconfigure. But it will be needed as soon as we have the libpaper hook,
and may be needed by other packages using update-texmf-config.
The solution is probably that each maintainer script that calls
update-texmf-config must add its package name as a second argument (or
even better, as an argument to a --by-package option). In addition,
update-texmf-config should be made fit for admin use - but I'm not sure
how to do that, since we *have*to* give dpkg-trigger a package name.
Regards, Frank
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.35 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.15.8.5 Debian package management system
ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1 Update Configuration File: preserv
tex-common recommends no packages.
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii debhelper 8.0.0 helper programs for debian/rules
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii texlive 2009-11 TeX Live: A decent selection of th
Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on:
ii texlive 2009-11 TeX Live: A decent selection of th
ii texlive-bibtex-extra 2009-10 TeX Live: Extra BibTeX styles
ii texlive-font-utils 2009-10 TeX Live: TeX and Outline font uti
ii texlive-fonts-extra 2009-10 TeX Live: Extra fonts
ii texlive-lang-croatian 2009-3 TeX Live: Croatian
ii texlive-lang-cyrillic 2009-3 TeX Live: Cyrillic
ii texlive-lang-czechslovak 2009-3 TeX Live: Czech/Slovak
ii texlive-lang-danish 2009-3 TeX Live: Danish
ii texlive-lang-dutch 2009-3 TeX Live: Dutch
ii texlive-lang-finnish 2009-3 TeX Live: Finnish
ii texlive-lang-french 2009-3 TeX Live: French
ii texlive-lang-german 2009-3 TeX Live: German
ii texlive-lang-greek 2009-3 TeX Live: Greek
ii texlive-lang-hungarian 2009-3 TeX Live: Hungarian
ii texlive-lang-italian 2009-3 TeX Live: Italian
ii texlive-lang-latin 2009-3 TeX Live: Latin
ii texlive-lang-mongolian 2009-3 TeX Live: Mongolian
ii texlive-lang-norwegian 2009-3 TeX Live: Norwegian
ii texlive-lang-other 2009-3 TeX Live: Other hyphenation files
ii texlive-lang-polish 2009-3 TeX Live: Polish
ii texlive-lang-portuguese 2009-3 TeX Live: Portuguese
ii texlive-lang-spanish 2009-3 TeX Live: Spanish
ii texlive-lang-swedish 2009-3 TeX Live: Swedish
ii texlive-lang-vietnamese 2009-3 TeX Live: Vietnamese
ii texlive-latex-extra 2009-10 TeX Live: LaTeX supplementary pack
ii texlive-math-extra 2009-10 TeX Live: Advanced math typesettin
ii texlive-pictures 2009-11 TeX Live: Graphics packages and pr
ii texlive-pstricks 2009-10 TeX Live: PSTricks packages
ii texlive-publishers 2009-10 TeX Live: Support for publishers,
Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
ii dpkg 1.15.8.5 Debian package management system
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in
ii luatex 0.60.2-1 next generation TeX engine
ii mime-support 3.48-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii texlive-binaries 2009-7 Binaries for TeX Live
ii texlive-common 2009-11 TeX Live: Base component
ii texlive-doc-base 2009-2 TeX Live: TeX Live documentation
-- debconf information:
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg
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