Comment 4 for bug 7395

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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:29:05 -0400
From: Adam Di Carlo <email address hidden>
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Subject: jadetex vs etex

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Package: jadetex
Version: 3.13-2
Severity: grave

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Subject: Bug#253098: Maintainer upload 3.13-2 backed out fix from NMU,
 jadetex is again completely broken.
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tags 253098 - fixed
thanks

Adam Di Carlo <email address hidden> wrote
[...]
> jadetex (3.13-2) unstable; urgency=low
> .
> * back out previous NMU completely; the change to etex is irrelevant to
> any problem reports I've seen, and moreover, the "fix" broke install;
> closes: #264926
> the original bug #253098 was a coreutils problem; that bug as well
[...]

And jadetex is uninstallable again and will continue to break
autobuilding of any package build-depending e.g via docbook-utils on
jadetex.
           cu andreas

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/ XX:> dpkg -i /tmp/jadetex_3.13-2_all.deb
Selecting previously deselected package jadetex.
(Reading database ... 26991 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking jadetex (from /tmp/jadetex_3.13-2_all.deb) ...
Setting up jadetex (3.13-2) ...
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Done.
Replacing config file /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf with new version
Checking for TeX memory dumps (.fmt) ...
WARNING: memory dump latex.fmt not found, attempting to reconstruct ...
fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.efmt installed.
ERROR: cannot create TeX memory dump latex.fmt
Your TeX environment seems to be broken; the memory dump file latex.fmt
was not found and cannot be created. Probably, TeX is miconfigured.
You should submit the log file /tmp/jadetex-postinst.7rgrso as a bug against
the package tetex-bin.

JadeTeX cannot be installed.
dpkg: error processing jadetex (--install):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 jadetex
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ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian
ii tetex-bin 2.0.2-17 The teTeX binary files
ii tetex-extra 2.0.2a-2 Additional library files of teTeX
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