> Subject: RE: Processed: help
> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:51:59 -0000
> From: "Martin Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Debian Bug Tracking System" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Dear Darren,
>
> I have purchased 1 copy of Debian potato 2.2r0 official
> binary and source
> from cheeplinux(uk) and I seem to have a problem with disk 2. It seems that
> there are many many corrupt packages that wont install. Some of the packages
> seem to be the following:
>
> tetex-bin
> tetex-extra
> jadetex
> cygnus-stylesheets
> task-sgml
> task-sgml-dev
>
> Although after a second glance there also seems to be quite a
> few more as
> well. Apt also seems to crash during the installation at one point because
> of too many broken packages / Dependency problems. This occours when you use
> either the simple installation and also though when you use dselect. I
> suppose its possible to install the required packages afterwards using apt
> manually but it would be nice if the installation ran smoothly....I know
> that Debian is not responsible for many of the packages on the disk, but it
> seems strange that you included so many broken ones on this distribution!
>
Perhaps another explanation. I tried to install task-sgml today and it
failed, but pointed me to bug report 67549 for jadetex. Actually the
gist of the report is that there is a problem with tetex-extra which can
be patched as follows:
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Subject: jadetex can't install
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Date: 13 Oct 2000 22:36:22 -0400
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Guys, wanted to get this patch to you. I have isolated your bug and
it is indeed a tetex-extra bug. Apply this patch if you need it going
now, or wait for fixed tetex.
I have isolated this problem. It's a problem in the tetex-extra
package. The bug is fixed by applying this patch:
--- /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cyrillic/t2aenc.def.orig Fri Oct 13
16:39:45 2000
+++ /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cyrillic/t2aenc.def Fri Oct 13
16:40:18 2000
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
\ProvidesFile{t2aenc.def}
[1999/11/29 v1.0c Cyrillic encoding definition file]
\DeclareFontEncoding{T2A}{}{}
-\DeclareFontSubstitution{\LastDeclaredEncoding}{cmr}{m}{n}
+\DeclareFontSubstitution{T2A}{cmr}{m}{n}
\DeclareTextAccent{\`}{\LastDeclaredEncoding}{0}
\DeclareTextAccent{\'}{\LastDeclaredEncoding}{1}
\DeclareTextAccent{\^}{\LastDeclaredEncoding}{2}
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