migration to texlive broken if old tetex not purged

On Fre, 13 Apr 2007, Václav Šmilauer wrote:
> Post-inst scripts of texlive-latex-extra generate format files with
> hyphenations specified in /etc/texmf/language.d/*. If texlive is
> installed over tetex without purging tetex's conffiles in
> /etc/texmf/language.d (directory shared by boyh tetex and texlive),
> there are bogus (=existing only in tetex) hyphenations patterns (copied
> from /etc/texmf/language.d/*tetex* (I don't remember exactly)) requested
> and the postinst-script fails.

Are you sure? This shouldn't happen if you have a decent tex-common
installed. Then calls of update-language do NOT include the snippets of
packages which are not installed, ie which are in state "remove" but not
"purge".

Did you check whether these files are actually included in the generated
language.dat file? (/var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat)

Best wishes

Norbert

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It was an update from edgy to feisty beta. I read the update-language manpage (which I didn't know before), but as the relevant file (/etc/texmf/language.d/10tetex.cnf) is gone already, I cannot reproduce anymore. I can only guess that I messed with that file before and deleted the magic comment by accident?

My conclusion would be that it might be relevant if some else reports it, in which case other explanation should be found. Otherwise I am sorry for bogus report.

Best regards,

Vaclav

Marking invalid since nobody else complained and transition from texmf to texlive is over now for most peoples.