installation fails

[Chris Moore]

$ sudo apt-get install tetex-bin
Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

tetex-bin is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 113 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up tetex-bin (3.0-13ubuntu2) ...
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Dialog frontend is incompatible with emacs shell buffers)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline

An essential entry in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf is missing. Fixing

Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 15, near "/^%%% From file: /etc"
 (Missing operator before etc?)
Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 15, near "05TeXMF"
 (Missing operator before TeXMF?)
syntax error at -e line 15, near "/^%%% From file: /etc"
syntax error at -e line 20, near "}"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255

There's a problem with the "postinst" script - it uses unescaped directry separators inside a Perl match.

My patch uses m!! instead of // to do the match, so the directory separators don't need escaping.

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

I don't know if this fixes the problem entirely or not, but it fixes one problem.

tetex-bin:
  Installed: 3.0-13ubuntu2

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Thanks, Chris, that looks sane.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 tetex-bin (3.0-13ubuntu4) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/postinst.functions: Enclose regular epxression in m!! instead of //
     to cope with the contained slashes. Thanks to Chris Moore!
     Closes: LP#33449
   * debian/rules.in: Clean up build cruft in clean rule.