Bug#677607: Fails to upgrade 3.11 → 3.12 (updmap-sys failed)

[Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:56:21AM +0100, Iain Lane wrote:
> Package: tex-common
> Version: 3.11
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> Not filing as RC as I cannot reproduce in a chroot, but maybe you want
> to upgrade.
> 
> I get an upgrade failure when trying to go from 3.11  3.12:
> 
> ,----
> | laney@polihale> sudo dpkg --configure tex-common
> | Setting up tex-common (3.11) ...
> | 
> | Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
> | Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... 
> | updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in
> | /tmp/updmap.74tEttrb
> | Please include this file if you report a bug.
> [...]
> The contents of that file are:
> 
> ,----
> | Can't locate TeXLive/TLUtils.pm in @INC (@INC contains: //tlpkg
> | /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.
> | 14.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.14
> | /usr/share/perl/5.14 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/bin/updmap l
> | ine 21.
> | BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/updmap line 21.
> `----
> 
> I don't think I've messed with @INC. Pointers on where to look welcomed.

That's bizarre.  updmap comes from texlive-binaries; which version of
that do you have installed?  My version of updmap reads, on line 32:

  unshift (@INC, "/usr/share/texlive/tlpkg");

What does yours read?

   Julian