Bug#666680: texlive-base: fails to upgrade from 'testing'

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Andreas,

thanks for your tip....

On Mo, 02 Apr 2012, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> I think the templates are not properly registered at the time they are
> being used ... but I'm no debconf guru.

Yes, that is the case ... I cannot find the proplematic template
in the debconf database.

> the templates are used from an arbitrary script, not a maintainer script
> directly, so eventually dh_installdebconf did not generate some
> neccessary bits ... I think I had a similar issue with the
> nvidia-support package ...

I see ... reading debconf-devel I see
       Note  that  if your package's sole use of debconf is in the postrm,
       you should make  your  package's  postinst  source  /usr/share/deb‐
       conf/confmodule, to give debconf a chance to load up your templates
       file into its database. Then the templates will be  available  when
       your package is being purged.
which hints at this problem ... trying now ...

Big thanks for your hints!!!

Best wishes

Norbert
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