Bug#851598: tex-common: fails to upgrade jessie->stretch (recommends enabled) with cadabra installed

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Andreas,

> > * 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

Hmmm, strange. In this chroot did the failure occur? I don't see
amstex in any of the fmtutil files so it should not happen ...

wait ...
fmtutil:   /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
fmtutil:   /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
fmtutil:   /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf

The last two are links to the above you send me, but to be sure:
* ls -l /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf

* the file /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf

please.

My "high confidence" was wrong ;-)

> 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)

You mean by replacing the file, and at the same time rm_conffile?
Would that work?

> 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

That sounds good, I guess I need to test a new tex-common, but first
want to find the reason for the error.

Thanks

Norbert

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