Package: tetex-extra Version: 3.0-10 Severity: minor Hello,
Pursuant to bug #340890, I found that it is possible to run MetaPost after installing and then purging tetex-extra, but not if tetex-extra was never installed. This behavior is dependent on the history of the system so I feel it is undesirable. The specific file that permits MetaPost to run after purging tetex-extra is /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mpost.mem , which is apparently created when tetex-extra is installed, but not deleted when the package is removed. Therefore I think that this file should be deleted in the prerm or postrm of tetex-extra on purge or remove. The failure to delete this file seems to be a regression. Previous versions of tetex-extra did remove the file; see for instance http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2004/08/msg00305.html If we look at the postrm file for tetex-extra 3.0-10, we find this function: remove_formats(){ for format in $EXTRA_FORMATS; do rm -f /var/lib/texmf/web2c/$format basename=${format%.*} rm -f /var/lib/texmf/web2c/$basename.log done } but $EXTRA_FORMATS is never defined in the script. ###################################### List of ls-R files -rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 1054 2005-11-28 06:28 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 25 2005-10-28 15:00 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-LOCAL lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2005-11-27 02:06 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on: ii dpkg 1.13.11.0.1 package maintenance system for Deb ii tetex-base 3.0-10 Basic library files of teTeX ii tetex-bin 3.0-10.1 The teTeX binary files ii ucf 2.003 Update Configuration File: preserv tetex-extra recommends no packages. -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
