Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 01:20:28PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> >> It looks suspiciously as if you have > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ???
I'm not investigating your behavior here, but a bug, and if I have suspicions, it's against some "things", never a user. I didn't mean to imply any criticism, but I find that I'm sometimes poor in expressing what I think in english, especially where technical and non-technical issues mix. Sorry if I upset you. > All I can say is what I've already said. I have no memory of ever > touching these files. The only time I _might_ have that I can think of > would have been with the addition of a LaTeX package from CTAN into my > local area, which I haven't done in a long time. > > I have been using Sid since I can remember (i.e. years). I know > NOTHING about the workings of (La)TeX outside of my use of it with LyX, > which I use to do all of my writing for work. The file more or less is > gibberish to me, which is why I stated that nothing was recognizable. > > I don't use experimental, and wouldn't have had any reason to try > upgrading when I wouldn't have known a reason to do so. Neither do I > understand why this problem hit me now, as I just finished updating my > system about 3 weeks ago, with no problems. I update with about that > frequency. I'm sorry, but I'm out of ideas. I trust you when you say that you didn't do these things, but I have no idea either how the old file could have gotten how it is. I have never heard of any buggy package that would do such edits. Well, there is one thing that we have learned from this report: We must put some code into the postinst script that checks for essential settings, like the fontpath thing, and either fix it or fail with a *good* error message. This is bug #338585, which I'm going to address soon. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
