[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#328749: package installation fails with teTeX 3.0

[Frank Küster]

tags 328749 patch
thanks

Hilmar Preusse <hille42 at web.de> wrote:

> Your package fails to install, when one has teTeX 3.0 from
> experimental installed:

Now that teTeX 3.0 is in unstable, this bug is RC.  Here is a patch, for
explanations please see the Debian TeX Policy in the tex-common package,
or ask on debian-tetex-maint.  Will you be able to do the upload soon?

Regards, Frank

diff -Nur xmltex-1.9.orig/debian/changelog xmltex-1.9/debian/changelog
--- xmltex-1.9.orig/debian/changelog	2005-10-20 14:37:08.000000000 +0200
+++ xmltex-1.9/debian/changelog	2005-10-20 14:49:29.959066814 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+xmltex (1.9-10.1) unreleased; urgency=low
+
+  * In postinst, do not check for the created format files, because the
+    names have changed (and might change again).  Instead, rely on
+    fmtutil-sys' return code, in accord with Debian TeX Policy (closes:
+    #328749) 
+  * Change all invocations of fmtutil to fmtutil-sys
+  * Do not check for LaTeX/pdfLaTeX format files, they are provided if
+    tetex-bin is configured
+
+ -- Frank Küster <frank at debian.org>  Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:49:29 +0200
+
 xmltex (1.9-10) unstable; urgency=high
 
   * debian/postinst,debian/postrm: updated to support .fmt as well as .efmt
diff -Nur xmltex-1.9.orig/debian/postinst xmltex-1.9/debian/postinst
--- xmltex-1.9.orig/debian/postinst	2005-10-20 14:37:08.000000000 +0200
+++ xmltex-1.9/debian/postinst	2005-10-20 14:49:00.161338049 +0200
@@ -68,8 +68,8 @@
     baseformat=$(basename $1 .efmt)
     if ! kpsewhich $format > /dev/null ; then
         warn "WARNING: $format not found, attempting to reconstruct ..."
-        echo "running 'fmtutil --byfmt $baseformat'" >> $MYTMP
-        fmtutil --byfmt $baseformat >> $MYTMP
+        echo "running 'fmtutil-sys --byfmt $baseformat'" >> $MYTMP
+        fmtutil-sys --byfmt $baseformat >> $MYTMP
         if kpsewhich $format > /dev/null ; then
             warn "Success"
         else
@@ -84,14 +84,14 @@
     local goterror
     goterror=false
 
-    if ! fmtutil --byfmt xmltex >> $MYTMP
+    if ! fmtutil-sys --byfmt xmltex >> $MYTMP
     then
-        warn "ERROR: xmltex fmtutil failed" 1>&2
+        warn "ERROR: xmltex fmtutil-sys failed" 1>&2
         goterror=true
     fi
-    if ! fmtutil --byfmt pdfxmltex >> $MYTMP
+    if ! fmtutil-sys --byfmt pdfxmltex >> $MYTMP
     then
-        warn "ERROR: pdfxmltex fmtutil failed" 1>&2
+        warn "ERROR: pdfxmltex fmtutil-sys failed" 1>&2
         goterror=true
     fi
     if $goterror; then
@@ -152,18 +152,14 @@
 	MYTMP=$(mktemp /tmp/xmltex-postinst.XXXXXX)
 	: >| $MYTMP
 
-	echo -e "Checking for TeX format files  we depend on ... \c"
-	checkfmt latex.fmt
-	checkfmt pdflatex.fmt
-	echo "done."
-
 	echo "Creating xmltex format files..."
-	if makexmltexfmt && xmltexfmtcheck; then
+	if makexmltexfmt; then
+	    rm $MYTMP
             echo "Done."
         else
-	    echo "Trying fmtutil --all"
-	    fmtutil --all >>$MYTMP
-	    if xmltexfmtcheck; then
+	    echo "Trying fmtutil-sys --all"
+	    if fmtutil-sys --all >>$MYTMP; then
+	        rm $MYTMP
 		echo "   done."
             else
                 echo "*** ERROR: can't make xmltex fmt files, bailing "


-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer