Bug#487630: Bug 487630 exists also in version 2007.dfsg.2-3 (and version 2007.dfsg.2-4)

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 13:30 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: 
> > (pointer to instructions how to check for this bug and how to work
> > around it - would be helpful as well)
> 
> /usr/share/doc/texlive-common/NEWS.Debian.gz

According to this document, no special action is needed.  Just install
texlive-common-bin and texlive-common and the process of
installation&configuration is supposed to take care of this.

I tried to do this (using aptitude).  Did not work for me.
When trying to reinstall texlive-base and texlive-base-bin, they did not
properly configure themselves due to texlive-base-bin failure to
reconfigure.

Next, I had aptitude remove texlive-base and texlive-base-bin, and all
packages depending upon them.  Before the actual update, I marked all
those packages as ones to be purged rather than deleted.
texlive-lang-cyrillic failed to purge due to some missing directory.

Then, I re-ran aptitude, purging texlive-lang-cyrillic, and this time it
purged.

Then I had aptitude re-install texlive and all packages upon which it
depends.  This attempt ended in error.  Attached please find
reportbug-created file and fmtutil.* logfile for this attempt.

Subject: texlive-base-bin: Another installation attempt failed
Followup-For: Bug #487630