Anders uploaded the package to his PPA (https://launchpad.net/~anders- kaseorg/+archive/ppa). I've verified that the package there eliminates this bug and causes texconfig to work again.
** Description changed: texlive-binaries lacks a dependency on ed that was previously present in texlive-base-bin. Because texconfig uses ed for, well, editing files, this causes texconfig to...no longer edit files, which causes it to silently do nothing, but without returning a non-0 error code. IMPACT: Attempting to use texconfig on systems without ed installed causes it to do nothing without failing DEVELOPMENT: This bug still has not been addressed in the development branch, but I've filed a bug with Debian to get the dependency added which will hopefully get synced PATCH: Attached in http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48042338/texlive- - bin_2009-5ubuntu0.1_lp577305.debdiff + bin_2009-5ubuntu0.1_lp577305.debdiff, with a test build in + https://launchpad.net/~anders-kaseorg/+archive/ppa INSTRUCTIONS: Create a bare-bones chroot without ed installed. Install texlive-binaries. Run `texconfig-sys paper letter`. Install ed. Run `texconfig-sys paper letter` again. Observe that texconfig now gives several lines of output of changed configuration files. REGRESSION: This is just adding a single dependency, so the regression potential should be minimal (Note that ed is depended on by ubuntu-standard, so the impact of this bug is comparatively slim, but it does affect things like build chroots) -- [SRU] Missing dependency on ed causes texconfig to fail silently in texlive-binaries https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/577305 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
