Bug#329189: tetex-base: dvips -Poutline not using .pfb fonts

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Arne Ahrend <ahrend@gmx.de> wrote:

> Starting after 
> 	dpkg --purge tetex-{base,bin,extra} texinfo
> it makes a difference whether I do
> 	 apt-get install tetex-bin ; apt-get install tetex-extra
> 	(this reproduces the bug)
> or just
> 	apt-get install tetex-extra
> and let it pull in all the others (this does NOT reproduce the bug).

Interesting (presumably this has nothing to do with the /bin/sh thing,
which is reassuring). The installation log (dpkg's messages) would be
even more interesting.

Maybe the unpack order can make font files appear in an unexpected place
if a package installs a symlink /path/to/foo and another package that is
unpacked later installs files such as /path/to/foo/bar/baz. But I think
the opposite order would give a dpkg error ("trying to overwrite ..."),
so I doubt it can be the explanation (and that would probably have been
noticed earlier). Just what comes to mind from what you described...

-- 
Florent