Tetex in unstable: fmtutil.cnf not found.

[Sebastian Canagaratna <s-canagaratna@onu.edu>]

 Hi:
 
  I am using unstable, and I upgraded yesterday on my home machine
  and the installation of the tetex psckages went fine, but I could not
  run texconfig: I got the error message that fmtutil.cnf could not be
  found. kpsewhich / fmtutil.cnf could not find it. dpkg-reconfigure
  tetex bin didnot correct it either: it creates files in
  /var/lib/texmf. When I do kpsewhich / ls-R it shows ls -R in
  /ust/share/texmf/web2c.
 
  I had not, as far as I am aware changed anything from the debian
  installation files. So this results seems puzzling, since it was
  working before the upgrade. What I did was to rename the web2c
  directory in /usr/share/texmf and link it to the web2c in
  /var/lib/texmf. Now it works. CLearly something is wrong. Can someone
  help me out here, because as I understand it, since VARTEXMF is before
  TEXMFMAIN in texmf.cnf in /etc/texmf/ the documentation suggests that
  THe one in VARTEXMF should take precendence.
 
  Is this problem peculiar to the debian packaging or to tetex itself?
 
  Thanks.
 
 
  Sebastian Canagaratna
  Department of Chemistry
  Ohio Northern University
  Ada, OH 45810