Bug#780330: context: mtxrun script calls texfont with hardcoded nonsense parameters "binary-indep"

[proctor <damonswirled@hotmail.com>]

Package: context
Version: 2014.05.21.20140528-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,


   * What led up to the situation?

   compiling pdf failed.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

     running "texfont --help" by itself also produces error
     "processing aborted : unknown vendor"

     so i ran strace and found that indeed texfont was being called with
     the strange parameter "binary-indep"

     removing "binary-indep" and replacing it with "$@" prevents the
     error and allows the program to proceed normally

     NB i also have this same issue on wheezy

   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages context depends on:
ii  dpkg                        1.17.24
ii  lmodern                     2.004.4-5
ii  ruby                        1:2.1.0.4
ii  ruby2.1 [ruby-interpreter]  2.1.5-1
ii  tex-common                  5.03
ii  tex-gyre                    20140520-1
ii  texlive-base                2014.20141024-2
ii  texlive-binaries            2014.20140926.35254-6
ii  texlive-metapost            2014.20141024-2

Versions of packages context recommends:
ii  context-modules           20140528-2
pn  fonts-freefont            <none>
ii  fonts-gfs-artemisia       1.1-5
ii  fonts-gfs-baskerville     1.1-5
ii  fonts-gfs-bodoni-classic  1.1-5
ii  fonts-gfs-didot           1.1-6
ii  fonts-gfs-didot-classic   1.1-5
ii  fonts-gfs-gazis           1.1-5
ii  fonts-gfs-neohellenic     1.1-6
ii  fonts-gfs-olga            1.1-5
ii  fonts-gfs-porson          1.1-6
ii  fonts-gfs-solomos         1.1-5
ii  fonts-gfs-theokritos      1.1-5
ii  fonts-sil-gentium         20081126:1.02-13

Versions of packages context suggests:
pn  context-doc-nonfree  <none>
pn  context-nonfree      <none>
pn  fontforge            <none>
ii  libxml-parser-perl   2.41-3
pn  perl-tk              <none>

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