Bug#872012: [tex-common] Installing fails due to fmtutil failure

[Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de>]

On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 22:43:09 +0900
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> severity 872012 normal
> tags 872012 + moreinfo unreproducible
> thanks
> 
> Hi Holger,
> 
> > in a clean sid chroot, I tried to install tex-common package, which fails,
> > because of fmtutil failure:
> 
> Very unlikely that you only installed tex-common into a clean chroot,
> because there are many formats that need at least texlive-latex-base.

Hmm, maybe I was not well explaining what I did:

I created a sid chroot:
debootstrap --arch i386 sid /srv/chroot/sid http://httpredir.debian.org/debian

chroot'ed into it:
chroot /srv/chroot/sid

created a executable file /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d with
	#!/bin/sh
	exit 101
	EOF

Created a build environment:
apt install build-essential

Added a deb-src source to /etc/apt/sources.list

and then installed the build-depends for the package "refcard":
apt-get build-dep refcard

This installs several packages, one of which is tex-common. 
This command fails with the given debug info.



Best regards
Holger


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Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de>