Bug#824835: tex-common: fmtutil fails

["D. B." <db0451@gmail.com>]

Thanks, Paul: I can confirm the below on unstable. Executing sudo aptitude install context sorted this...

...but seeing as this pulled in a whopping 365 MB of archives (and that's just the compressed version), which I might've never voluntarily installed, possibly just to get a single file that restores working updates to the wanted parts of my system... and of which apparently a full 207 MB are purely doc packages... I can't help but feel there must be a better way for upstream to handle all this.

Well, that's not Debian's fault, so what can ya do. Thanks again!

On Sat, 21 May 2016 11:49:31 +0200 Paul Seelig <pseelig@rumbero.org> wrote:
> i stumbled over the line stating:
>
>         ! I can't find file `syst-tex.mkii'.
>
> Checking with apt-file, syst-tex.mkii appeared to be contained in two
> packages, namely 'context' and 'texlive-latex-base'. Apparently there
> was a change, as this file is no longer part of texlive-latex-base, but
> only contained in context, which was not installed before on my systems.
>
> After adding the context package, all remaining packages configured just
> fine.
>
> Looks as if we now also require to have context installed.