reassign 460559 tex-common retitle 460559 Needs to conflict with etch's version of the tetex packages clone 460559 -1 reassign -1 texlive-base-bin retitle -1 manpages of updmap, fmtutil and texconfig should refer to TeX-on-Debian docs severity 460559 serious severity 460559 normal thanks
Paul Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 03.02.2008, 18:44 +0100 schrieb Frank Küster: >> Paul Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I finally found [1] and the /usr/share/texmf-tetex (or texlive – I do >> > not remember and I do not have access to the computer now) was not in my >> > paths either. >> >> And you upgraded from an old machine to unstable, right? > > If I remember correctly the machine was using unstable all the time. I > just had not done an sudo aptitude safe-upgrade for over a year and was > still using the tetex packages. Hm, which paths did you have in TEXMFDIST before you made the change? If it was only /usr/share/texmf-tetex, than it's the problem I described, just not with upgrades from stable_n to stable_n+2, but within unstable - and I wouldn't care much about that. However, from the info in your first mail it seems to me that the problem was that you only had the new path, /usr/share/texmf-texlive. That means you had already upgraded tex-common, but the old tetex-extra still installed. This is something that can still happen to anyone upgrading from etch to lenny. It seems we need to bump the Conflicts line in tex-common from Conflicts: tetex-base (<= 3.0-3), tetex-bin (<= 3.0-4) to Conflicts: tetex-base (<= 2007), tetex-bin (<= 2007) But before doing that, I'd like to do some testing first. >> Any ideas how we could have helped you find that info? > > I did not find it with google. > > If the output in the updmap logfile had a reference like „read the > files /usr/share/doc/tex-common/TeX-on-Debian*” I might have found it. Hm, well, I think looking into /usr/share/doc/$package should be the first thing on a Debian system, much prior to searching with Google. You've already found that the problem has to to with updmap, which is in the tetex-bin package. $ ls /usr/share/doc/tetex-bin/ NEWS.Debian.gz README.Developers changelog.Debian.experimental.gz changelog.gz README.Debian TODO.Debian changelog.Debian.gz copyright Both README.Debian and NEWS.Debian point you to TeX-on-Debian.* > Also a note in the warning running updmap-sys --edit which finds a > modified configuration file (and recommends to delete it, if I remember > correctly) might have helped. You used --syncwithtrees, and that give a very generic information which is not Debian-specific, and the script cannot guess that you have a Debian-specific problem. The manpages, however, (and maybe the output of --edit, that's right) should mention the documentation in tex-common. (Cloning the bug and reassigning to texlive-base-bin). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
