[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#271291: passivetex fails its post-install configuration

[Frank Küster]

Hi Tom, hi passivetex maintainers,

I'm one of the tetex-bin maintainers, and just read that bug report. 

I think the bug might have been in tetex-bin_2.0.2-20 which was
installed when the bug was reported, and fixed in 2.0.2-21; from the
changelog:

  * Also provide a smooth upgrade path to the use of update-updmap and
    update-fmtutil, thanks to Pierre Machard <pmachard@debian.org> and
    Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@iki.fi> (closes: #268957, #267734). 
    [frank]

Tom, you wrote:

> Interestingly, a texmf.cnf file with some temporary filename is
> created in the directory from which I try to install the package.

Was the filename something like 23456ETXMFC, i.e. a "random" number plus
ETXMFC? Then it is probably a close relative to the bug above, or rather
the part that was only fixed with 2.0.2-22:

  * Bug #267734 was not really fixed by the last upload because of a typo
    in the postinst script, thanks to Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>
    (see discussion in debian-tetex-maint with 269416 in the
    subject). [frank]

(Unfortunately, this search pattern won't help. Instead search for
"ETXMFC" on debian-tetex-maint), giving

http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2004/09/msg00069.html

and the followup.

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie