Bug#865300: tex-common: check for texlive-base ambiguous in /usr/sbin/update-language
Package: tex-common
Version: 6.06
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
I had noticed that since some time my latex installation did not recognise
the Italian language as installed, even if the pertinent package was indeed
installed. Today, upon the huge texlive update that hit sid, I noticed that
in the configuration phase update-language, when called, would say that it
would do nothing since texlive base was not installed or configured.
However texlive-base was installed and properly configured, so what?
Looking into update-language, I found that it checks for the status of
texlive-base like this:
dpkg-query -W -f=\'\${Status}\' texlive-base 2>/dev/null
which, on my system, reports:
'unknown ok not-installed''install ok installed'
and hence causes the following check to fail.
This is apparently due to the fact that I have been updating my installation
for a long, long time, so if I query my system with
apt-show-versions -a texlive-base
it says:
texlive-base:all 2017.20170619-1 install ok installed
No stable version
texlive-base:all 2017.20170619-1 sid ftp.debian.org
texlive-base:all 2017.20170619-1 buildd-unstable incoming.debian.org
No experimental version
texlive-base:all/sid 2017.20170619-1 uptodate
texlive-base:amd64 unknown ok not-installed
No stable version
No unstable version
No experimental version
texlive-base:amd64 not installed (even not available)
So apparently my system remembers the (ancient?) existence of a
texlive-base:amd64 package, now unavailable, and when queried by
dpkg-query about texlive-base it gives two answers: one for this ancient
version, which is now unavailable and is hence 'unknown ok not-installed',
and one for the current version which is 'install ok installed'.
The easy and painless fix for this is to replace
dpkg-query -W -f=\'\${Status}\' texlive-base 2>/dev/null
in line 104 of /usr/sbin/update-language with the architecture specific
dpkg-query -W -f=\'\${Status}\' texlive-base:all 2>/dev/null
which refers unambiguously to the present version in sid and stretch and
hence does not incur in the problem.
I hope this may be useful for others, best regards
Giacomo Mulas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers buildd-unstable
APT policy: (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (401, 'unstable'), (10, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.25-jak (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to it_IT.utf8), LANGUAGE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to it_IT.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii dpkg 1.18.24
ii ucf 3.0036
tex-common recommends no packages.
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii debhelper 10.2.5
Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61
ii libpaper-utils 1.1.24+nmu5
ii texlive-binaries 2017.20170613.44572-2
ii ucf 3.0036
ii xdg-utils 1.1.1-1
Versions of packages texlive-base recommends:
ii lmodern 2.004.5-3
Versions of packages texlive-base suggests:
ii acroread [pdf-viewer] 9.5.5-dmo2
ii atril [postscript-viewer] 1.16.1-2
ii evince [postscript-viewer] 3.22.1-3
ii ghostscript [postscript-viewer] 9.21~dfsg-1
ii gv [postscript-viewer] 1:3.7.4-1+b1
ii okular [postscript-viewer] 4:16.08.2-1+b1
ii perl-tk 1:804.033-1+b3
ii zathura-pdf-poppler [pdf-viewer] 0.2.7-1
Versions of packages texlive-binaries depends on:
ii dpkg 1.18.24
ii install-info 6.3.0.dfsg.1-1+b2
ii libc6 2.24-12
ii libcairo2 1.14.8-1
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.7+b1
ii libfreetype6 2.6.3-3.2
ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18
ii libgmp10 2:6.1.2+dfsg-1
ii libgraphite2-3 1.3.10-2
ii libgs9 9.21~dfsg-1
ii libharfbuzz-icu0 1.4.2-1
ii libharfbuzz0b 1.4.2-1
ii libice6 2:1.0.9-2
ii libicu57 57.1-6
ii libkpathsea6 2017.20170613.44572-2
ii libmpfr4 3.1.5-1
ii libpaper1 1.1.24+nmu5
ii libpixman-1-0 0.34.0-1
ii libpng16-16 1.6.29-3
ii libpoppler64 0.48.0-2
ii libpotrace0 1.14-2
ii libptexenc1 2017.20170613.44572-2
ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b3
ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18
ii libsynctex1 2017.20170613.44572-2
ii libtexlua52 2017.20170613.44572-2
ii libtexluajit2 2017.20170613.44572-2
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.13-1+b2
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii libxi6 2:1.7.9-1
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.12-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1
ii libzzip-0-13 0.13.62-3.1
ii perl 5.24.1-3
ii t1utils 1.39-2
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
Versions of packages texlive-binaries recommends:
ii python 2.7.13-2
ii ruby 1:2.3.3
ii texlive-base 2017.20170619-1
ii tk [wish] 8.6.0+9
-- debconf information:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
texlive-base/binary_chooser: pdftex, dvips, dvipdfmx, xdvi
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
texlive-base/texconfig_ignorant:
-- debsums errors found:
debsums: changed file /usr/sbin/update-language (from tex-common package)
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