Bug#671610: dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure)
severity 671610 minor
tags 671610 + unreproducible
thanks
Hi all,
On Sa, 05 Mai 2012, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> This is just the sub-bug. The initial problem (tex-common tries to
> remove a file w/o checking if it exists (row 406 in tex-common
> postinst) still exists.
Yes ... ok ... but in his case there is something strange going on:
The mentioned removal happnes only on UPGRADES from version 2 -> version 3
of tex-common.
if dpkg --compare-versions "$trigger" lt "3" && dpkg --compare-versions "$trigger" gt 1 ; then
so that should NOT happen on new installs, only on upgrades from
version 2.
But I have tested new clean installs *several* times so I canot reprodcue
this bug in any way ...
Frank:
> Then, maybe, it is a *different* package that removed
> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf? Do you have dpkg logfiles, and could you check
> whether there were any tex-related removals?
Forget that for now, this is not what we are searching ;-)
A new install of tex-common should not have effect.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer
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