[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#345764: xmltex: fmtutil run as root, instead of fmtutil-sys

[Gordon Haverland]

Package: xmltex
Version: 1.9-11
Severity: normal


I got a message from apt-getthat I should file a bug report, so this is
the bug report.

The circumstances are that my TeX installation has been broken for at
least a month now.  I kept hoping some new package would get installed,
and things would start working.  Last night, I did a little more
googling.

About the best path to fix things, seemed to be to purge tetex-base,
tetex-bin, tetex-extra and tex-common from the system and re-install.
Running 'dpkg --purge tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra tex-common'
didn't actually result in purging anything, due to dependencies.
Adding a '--force-depends' did remove the packages and configuration
files.  Reinstalling those 4 packages after the purge, still left
things broken.

More reading.  Jadetex seems to be a sticking point for a bunch of
problems from what I can see in bug reports, and the fmtutil kept dying
on problems with xmltex.

So, I tried purging (with --force-depends) the now 6 packages:
tetex-base, tetex-bin, tetex-extra, tex-common, xmltex, jadetex.
When this ran, there were problems with removing some of the
xmltex configuration, due to kpathsea (I believe) being already
removed when it came time to remove xmltex.

Reinstalling these 6 packages at least got most of my TeX system
working, however, xmltex was still broken.

I then purged (with --force-depends) just xmltex, and then reinstalled.
This seems to have things working, except for this note about submitting
a bug report about fmtutil being run as root.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages xmltex depends on:
ii  tetex-base                    3.0-11     Basic library files of teTeX
ii  tetex-bin                     3.0-13     The teTeX binary files
ii  tetex-extra                   3.0-11     Additional library files of teTeX

Versions of packages xmltex recommends:
ii  passivetex                    1.25-2     Macros to process XSL formatting o

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