Debian bug report logs - #1626
mflib package dies when trying to reinstall

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Date:  Tue Oct 10 14:54:02 MET 1995
Package:  mflib
Version:  1.0-5
Description:  Auxiliary files to run Metafont
Priority: Low
Changes: Fixed postrm
 added -f to the rm in the postinst
# File: <name> <size> <md5sum> <destination>
File: mflib-1.0-5.deb 38957 f84381853dc85159b9613cd3b69eb677 binary/tex
File: mflib-1.0-5.tar.gz 40322 4392c89fd84a31782d0cdfa31988b2d4 source/tex

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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