debathena-tex-config fails on upgrade (maybe) and contains no files on Lucid

[jdreed]

For some reason, the debathena-tex-config doesn't configure any of the files it's supposed to:

opus:~ broder$ dpkg -L debathena-tex-config
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/debathena-tex-config
/usr/share/doc/debathena-tex-config/copyright
/usr/share/doc/debathena-tex-config/changelog.gz

aseering reported that this caused errors when upgrading from a release whose tex-config package wasn't borked.

[broder]

I just tested building debathena-tex-config on a Lucid machine, and I got all the files I would have expected, which makes me think that we're missing a build-dependency somewhere or something:

opus:~/sipb/src/athena/debathena/config/tex-config broder$ dpkg -c ../debathena-tex-config_1.3_all.deb 
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-05-08 01:10 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-05-08 01:10 ./etc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-05-08 01:10 ./etc/texmf/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-05-08 01:10 ./etc/texmf/dvips/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-05-08 01:10 ./etc/texmf/dvips/config/
-rw-r--r-- root/root     15818 2010-05-08 01:09 ./etc/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps.debathena
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-05-08 01:10 ./etc/texmf/dvipdfm/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-05-08 01:10 ./etc/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1490 2010-05-08 01:09 ./etc/texmf/dvipdfm/config/config.debathena
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-05-08 01:10 ./etc/texmf/dvipdfmx/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      7457 2010-05-08 01:09 ./etc/texmf/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx.cfg.debathena
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-05-08 01:10 ./etc/texmf/xdvi/
-rw-r--r-- root/root     13871 2010-05-08 01:09 ./etc/texmf/xdvi/XDvi.debathena
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-05-08 01:10 ./etc/texmf/tex/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-05-08 01:10 ./etc/texmf/tex/generic/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-05-08 01:10 ./etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       283 2010-05-08 01:09 ./etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex.debathena
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-05-08 01:10 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-05-08 01:10 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-05-08 01:10 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2010-05-08 01:10 ./usr/share/doc/debathena-tex-config/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1472 2009-04-04 09:33 ./usr/share/doc/debathena-tex-config/copyright
-rw-r--r-- root/root       371 2010-04-28 17:56 ./usr/share/doc/debathena-tex-config/changelog.gz

[broder]

I've attached the build log from zulu for perusal.

[broder]

The plot thickens!

As far as I can tell, I've tracked this down to a missing dependency in the texlive-binaries package. When texlive-binaries was created to replace texlive-base-bin, the maintainers dropped the dependency on ed (yes, that ed). Since texconfig uses ed to, well, edit files, not having it installed caused texconfig to do nothing.

I've filed bugs with Debian and Ubuntu, and I'm going to see if I can get an SRU for Ubuntu.

[broder]

Working around the bug by adding a build-dep on ed to tex-config. r24673, in proposed

I've verified that the new Lucid packages have all the files they're supposed to