[Piuparts-devel] Bug#603068: tex-common, texlive-binaries: can't be installed together

[Norbert Preining]

Sorry dpkg guys for involving you into that.

I have seen the bug report, checked the code, missed the || true I had
already added, and only afterwards realized the the bug report
was done with an ancient version of tex-common - which I also missed.


On Do, 11 Nov 2010, Sven Joachim wrote:
> You seem to have been aware of that some time ago, judging by the
> comment in tex-common's postinst script:
> 
> ,----
> |  # dpkg-query has two defects wrt not existing packages
> |  # - it is noisy to stderr
> |  # - it returns 1
> |  # so shut both errors up
> |  stat=$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Status}' texlive-base 2>/dev/null || true)
> `----

> The question remains WTF Holger's piuparts test was run with the ancient
> tex-common version 2.06.

Right, but this is not up to me to find out ;-)

Again, sorry for the noise, and thanks for the replies.

Best wishes

Norbert
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