Comment 6 for bug 28104

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:39:01 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?= <email address hidden>
To: =?iso-8859-1?q?J=F6rg_Sommer?= <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#346326: tetex-bin: postinst fails -- dvips35.map not found

severity 346326 normal
retitle 346326 Add check for correct setting of TEXMF
reassign 346326 tex-common
thanks

J=F6rg Sommer <email address hidden> wrote:

>> There is no mention of /usr/share/texmf-tetex at all here.
>
> Thanks. I've got the hint. It was the old problem, that I update the
> config after package installation, which causes tetex-extra got installed
> with the old config.

We should check for that, and bail out with an understandable error
message.=20

> Did you ever discuss this issue in debian-devel?

Yes, and it's clear that it's not a bug to fail if the local admin
refuses to update the configuration - just as it is not a bug if the
local admin changes their configuration to a non-working setting without
an upgrade.

Regards, Frank
--=20
Frank K=FCster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z=FCrich
Debian Developer