Ok as it looks to me now the intention of the change in postinst between etch and lenny was to place the files generated by mktexupd into /var/lib/texmf/web2c/ptex instead of the /var/lib/texmf/web2c itself.
If that should really happen it looks like the postinst script has to create the directory by hand or it should be shipped in the package itself. Looking around on my system it seems that context ships a pdftex diretory in web2c within the package while e.g. luatex doesn't. So I'm a bit unsure which the right way is but if nobody else comes up with something better I'll try to prepare a patch in the next two days with checks for the existens of the tools and the directory creation. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]