On 2017-01-17 01:05, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > thanks for the report, if you have the chroot still available, can No, but it just takes 15 minutes to recreate the failure ... and with a brand-new piuparts option I get a shell in the chroot upon failure :-) > you please send me: > * all files in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/ > * /var/lib/texmf/fmtutil.cnf-DEBIAN > * /var/lib/texmf/fmtutil.cnf-TEXLIVEDIST see attached tarball, this is from an amd64 chroot, took only 11 minutes, not enough time for another NMU inbetween :-) > I have a pretty high confidence that the problem comes from: > - upgrade removes (but not purges) texlive-math-extra > - thus the cfg file in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/ remains > - it is included in fmtutil.cnf(-DEBIAN) > - but the necessary package (texlive-science) is not installed > > I think the only way around that is dropping support for old > packages that ship formats in /etc/texmf/fmt.d, afais there > is none in sid. and add a list of Breaks to e.g. tex-common Or if there is only a subset of these packages, tex-common could "take over" their conffiles in order to dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile them (again with appropriate Breaks in place) Andreas PS: if you need some new package to be tested in this upgrade path, I could inject it in the stretch side of that upgrade test
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