I have retested the state of this issue with the recent updates in testing/lenny (context version 2008.10.31-1).
The result is that I have been unable to get the updated version to work using the settings from Message #8 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=502091#8 (and after reading /usr/share/doc/context/README.MarkIV) BTW: TEXMFCACHE is configured in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/contextcnf.lua in the recent version but it's value is c:/temp As a last resort, I upgraded luatex to 0.30.3-1 from experimental which works as expected (I had to clear and regenerate TEXMFCACHE) Michal Versions of packages context depends on: ii lmodern 1.010x-5 scalable PostScript and OpenType f ii ruby 4.2 An interpreter of object-oriented ii tex-common 1.11.3 common infrastructure for building ii texlive-base 2007.dfsg.1-4 TeX Live: Essential programs and f ii texlive-base-bin 2007.dfsg.2-4 TeX Live: Essential binaries ii texlive-metapost 2007.dfsg.2-4 TeX Live: MetaPost (and Metafont) Versions of packages context recommends: ii luatex 0.30.3-1 next generation TeX engine Versions of packages context suggests: ii context-doc-nonfree 2007.01.02-1 ConTeXt documentation that is not ii context-nonfree 2007.03.22-1 Non-free items from the ConTeXt di pn fontforge <none> (no description available) ii libxml-parser-perl 2.36-1.1+b1 Perl module for parsing XML files pn perl-tk <none> (no description available) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

