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[Jean-Baptiste Lallement <jean-baptiste.lallement@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Anders,

The fix for ed is fine. it's another issue introduced in lucid. The
problem is only with tcfmgr that is not installed when you install only
texlive-binaries.

I think that's a regression introduced in lucid because in karmic tcfmgr
was shipped in texlive-base-bin together with texconfig and other
binaries. Since lucid they are shipped separately and texlive-base is
not necessarily installed but fmtutil, texconfig, updmap and mktexfmt
(in texlive-binaries) use it.

Anyway, I verified the ed fix in maverick and lucid and it's okay.

Thanks.

** Changed in: texlive-bin (Ubuntu Lucid)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Summary changed:

- [SRU] Missing dependency on texlive-base causes texconfig to fail silently in texlive-binaries
+ [SRU] Missing dependency on ed causes texconfig to fail silently in texlive-binaries

** Changed in: texlive-bin (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

** Tags added: verification-done
** Tags removed: verification-failed

** 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, 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.
+ texlive-binaries and texlive-base. 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)

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[SRU] Missing dependency on ed causes texconfig to fail silently in texlive-binaries
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/577305
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