>> Package fails to install due to "5 year bug", cf. eg. bug #531595. > > Thanks so why do you report it when we have already uploaded a package > of texlive-base-bin that fixes this problem?
Because I believe that the package texlive-formats-extra is still broken in oldstable. (Well, at least it doesn't install on my system.) Kind regards, Thiemo # apt-get install texlive-formats-extra Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: texlive-base texlive-base-bin texlive-latex-base texlive-pdfetex Recommended packages: dvipdfmx The following NEW packages will be installed: texlive-base texlive-base-bin texlive-formats-extra texlive-latex-base texlive-pdfetex 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 38.7MB of archives. After unpacking 70.1MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org etch-proposed-updates/main texlive-base-bin 2005.dfsg.2-13 [12.0MB] Get:2 http://debian.bio.lmu.de etch/main texlive-base 2005.dfsg.3-1 [6126kB] Get:3 http://debian.bio.lmu.de etch/main texlive-latex-base 2005.dfsg.3-1 [15.5MB] Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org etch-proposed-updates/main texlive-pdfetex 2005.dfsg.2-13 [3045kB] Get:5 http://debian.bio.lmu.de etch/main texlive-formats-extra 2005.dfsg.3-1 [1990kB] Fetched 38.7MB in 3s (12.4MB/s) Selecting previously deselected package texlive-base-bin. (Reading database ... 245262 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking texlive-base-bin (from .../texlive-base-bin_2005.dfsg.2-13_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package texlive-base. Unpacking texlive-base (from .../texlive-base_2005.dfsg.3-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package texlive-pdfetex. Unpacking texlive-pdfetex (from .../texlive-pdfetex_2005.dfsg.2-13_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package texlive-latex-base. Unpacking texlive-latex-base (from .../texlive-latex-base_2005.dfsg.3-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package texlive-formats-extra. Unpacking texlive-formats-extra (from .../texlive-formats-extra_2005.dfsg.3-1_all.deb) ... Setting up texlive-base-bin (2005.dfsg.2-13) ... Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Building format(s) --all . This may take some time... done. Setting up texlive-base (2005.dfsg.3-1) ... Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Building format(s) --all . This may take some time... done. Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done. Setting up texlive-pdfetex (2005.dfsg.2-13) ... Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Building format(s) --byfmt etex. This may take some time... done. Building format(s) --byfmt pdfetex. This may take some time... done. Setting up texlive-latex-base (2005.dfsg.3-1) ... Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Building format(s) --byfmt latex. This may take some time... done. Building format(s) --byfmt pdflatex. This may take some time... done. Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done. Setting up texlive-formats-extra (2005.dfsg.3-1) ... Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Building format(s) --byfmt mltex. This may take some time... done. Building format(s) --byfmt mllatex. This may take some time... fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in /tmp/texlive.fmtutil.ePxx7300 Please include this file if you report a bug. dpkg: error processing texlive-formats-extra (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: texlive-formats-extra E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- +-----------------------------------+--------------------------+ | Dipl.-Phys. Thiemo Nagel | | | Technische Universitaet Muenchen | Room PH1 3276 | | Physik-Department E18 | | | James-Franck-Strasse | Phone +49 89 289-12379 | | D-85747 Garching | Fax +49 89 289-12570 | +-----------------------------------+--------------------------+
fmtutil: running `pdfetex -ini -jobname=mllatex -progname=mllatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx -mltex mllatex.ini' ... This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) (INITEX) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c/cp227.tcx) MLTeX v2.2 enabled (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/config/mllatex.ini (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/texsys.cfg) ./texsys.aux found \...@currdir set to: ./. Assuming \openin and \input have the same search path. Defining UNIX/DOS style filename parser. catcodes, registers, compatibility for TeX 2, parameters, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! You are attempting to make a LaTeX format from a source file ! That is more than five years old. ! ! If you enter <return> to scroll past this message then the format ! will be built, but please consider obtaining newer source files ! before continuing to build LaTeX. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! LaTeX source files more than 5 years old!. l.540 ...aTeX source files more than 5 years old!} ? ! Emergency stop. l.540 ...aTeX source files more than 5 years old!} No pages of output. Transcript written on mllatex.log. Error: `pdfetex -ini -jobname=mllatex -progname=mllatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx -mltex mllatex.ini' failed ############################################################################### fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully. Visit the log files in directory /var/lib/texmf/web2c for details. ############################################################################### This is a summary of all `failed' messages: `pdfetex -ini -jobname=mllatex -progname=mllatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx -mltex mllatex.ini' failed