Bug#851598: tex-common: fails to upgrade jessie->stretch (recommends enabled) with cadabra installed

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Andreas,

thanks for the report, if you have the chroot still available, can
you please send me:
* all files in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/
* /var/lib/texmf/fmtutil.cnf-DEBIAN
* /var/lib/texmf/fmtutil.cnf-TEXLIVEDIST

I have a pretty high confidence that the problem comes from:
- upgrade removes (but not purges) texlive-math-extra
- thus the cfg file in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/ remains
- it is included in fmtutil.cnf(-DEBIAN)
- but the necessary package (texlive-science) is not installed

I think the only way around that is dropping support for old
packages that ship formats in /etc/texmf/fmt.d, afais there
is none in sid.

Thanks

Norbert

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