Subject: Bug#4397: amstex

From: "James A. Robinson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 09:09:50 -0400

Package: amstex
Maintainer: Nils Rennebarth <[email-masked]>
Version: 2.1-1

one of amstex's file seems to conflict with amsfonts, and it can't
seem to find a tfm file it needs.  This is the same error that was
triggering massive multi-megabyte log files before, and I am thinking
that error might related to xypic overwriting mflib's
install-fmt-base, because at least with mflib's it does not go into an
endless loop.

[lestat:/usr/local/pub/debian/tex]# dpkg -i amstex_2.1-1.deb 
Selecting previously deselected package amstex.
(Reading database ... 32759 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking amstex (from amstex_2.1-1.deb) ...
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/texmf/tex/amstex/base/amssym.tex', which is also in package amsfonts
Setting up amstex (2.1-1) ...
kpathsea: Running MakeTeXTFM manfnt.tfm 
Running MakeTeXPK manfnt.tfm
mf \mode:=nullmode; mag:=1; scrollmode; input manfnt \</dev/null
This is METAFONT, Version 2.71 (C version 6.1)

kpathsea: Running MakeTeXMF manfnt.mf 
I don't know how to generate manfnt.mf!
! I can't find file `manfnt.mf'.
<*> ...=nullmode; mag:=1; scrollmode; input manfnt
                                                  
Please type another input file name: 
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...=nullmode; mag:=1; scrollmode; input manfnt
                                                  
Transcript written on mfput.log.
Metafont failed for some reason on manfnt.tfm
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.