Debian bug report logs - #1626, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1626: mflib package dies when trying to reinstall
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Package: mflib
Version: 1.0
Revision: 4

I'm sorry I can't quote the exact messages because I'm away from my
linux box (which is at home), but I am fairly sure about what the problem
I'm reporting is and what the fix is.

When using dselect, I interrupted installation after it had installed
mflib but before it had configured anything. When I restarted it failed
during the "preparing..." stage. The error message was
rm: /usr/doc/texmf no such file or directory

It looks like there should be an "rm -f" where there is presently
only an "rm". I suggest this, because I reran the installation several times
and each time it failed, then I did a "touch /usr/doc/texmf" and reran the
installation and everything went okay.

Thomas

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Thomas Charles CONWAY <conway@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Subject: Bug#1626: Acknowledgement (was: mflib package dies when trying to reinstall)
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Package: mflib
Version: 1.0
Revision: 4

I'm sorry I can't quote the exact messages because I'm away from my
linux box (which is at home), but I am fairly sure about what the problem
I'm reporting is and what the fix is.

When using dselect, I interrupted installation after it had installed
mflib but before it had configured anything. When I restarted it failed
during the "preparing..." stage. The error message was
rm: /usr/doc/texmf no such file or directory

It looks like there should be an "rm -f" where there is presently
only an "rm". I suggest this, because I reran the installation several times
and each time it failed, then I did a "touch /usr/doc/texmf" and reran the
installation and everything went okay.

Thomas

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Thomas Charles CONWAY <conway@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Subject: Bug#1626 acknowledged by developer (was: mflib package dies when trying to reinstall)
References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951010163131.4456D-100000@ghyrrm.nus.pan-net.de> <199510101031.14161@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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