Package: wims
Version: 3.55-7
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

dpkg fails to configure wims 3.55-7 on my system, with the postinst's
font-generation step hitting a series of problems.  The first problem
I ran into was that $tex2gif would silently exit with status 1; I
eventually figured out that this was because wims's shell was set to
/bin/false, presumably as a relic of the old version I previously had
installed.  I would advise using su's -s flag rather than expecting
wims to have a valid shell:

tex2gif="su wims -s /bin/sh -c $HTML_DIR/bin/tex..gif"
                 ^^^^^^^^^^

Having solved that, however, I ran into a checksum mismatch:

} Setting up wims (3.55-7) ...
} Rendering fonts, sizes 63 to 173: 639A2C2221 != 00000073
} /var/lib/wims/public_html/bin/tex..gif: Font checksum discord.
} dpkg: error processing wims (--configure):
}  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
} Errors were encountered while processing:
}  wims

Here are the contents of my system's /var/lib/wims/tmp/texgif.out:

} This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.4)
} (./texgif.tex
} dvi file: num=25400000, den=473628672, ratio=0.000016, mag=1200, density=76
} This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.4)
} (texgf.mf
} Created image: 9x7
} Output to /var/lib/wims/public_html/mathfonts/63/Delta.gif.
} This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.4)
} (./texgif.tex
} dvi file: num=25400000, den=473628672, ratio=0.000016, mag=1200, density=76
} Created image: 7x7
} Output to /var/lib/wims/public_html/mathfonts/63/Gamma.gif.
} This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.4)
} (./texgif.tex
} dvi file: num=25400000, den=473628672, ratio=0.000016, mag=1200, density=76
} This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.4)
} (texgf.mf

Please let me know if you need any additional information.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.1
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages wims depends on:
ii  adduser              3.90                Add and remove users and groups
ii  apache2              2.0.55-4            next generation, scalable, extenda
ii  apache2-mpm-worker [ 2.0.55-4            high speed threaded model for Apac
ii  cdebconf [debconf-2. 0.103               Debian Configuration Management Sy
ii  chemeq               1.2-1               Parser for chemical formula and eq
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0 1.5.2               Debian configuration management sy
ii  fortunes             1:1.99.1-3          Data files containing fortune cook
ii  gap                  4r4p7-1             Groups, Algorithms and Programming
ii  gnuplot              4.0.0-3             A command-line driven interactive 
ii  imagemagick          7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-0.9 Image manipulation programs
ii  libc6                2.3.6-15            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgd2-xpm           2.0.33-4            GD Graphics Library version 2
ii  maxima               5.9.2-2             A fairly complete computer algebra
ii  pari-gp              2.3.0-1             PARI/GP Computer Algebra System bi
ii  tetex-bin            3.0-16              The teTeX binary files
ii  tetex-extra          3.0-18              Additional library files of teTeX
ii  units-filter         1.0-3               Parser for expressions concerning 
ii  wims-modules         3.55-7              modules used by the WIMS server

wims recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* wims/reconfigure-webserver: apache2
  wims/restart-webserver: false


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