** Description changed:

  texlive-binaries lacks a dependency on ed that was previously present in
  texlive-base-bin. Because texconfig uses ed for, well, editing files,
  this causes texconfig to...no longer edit files, which causes it to
  silently do nothing, but without returning a non-0 error code.
  
  IMPACT: Attempting to use texconfig on systems without ed installed
  causes it to do nothing without failing
  
  DEVELOPMENT: This bug still has not been addressed in the development
  branch, but I've filed a bug with Debian to get the dependency added
  which will hopefully get synced
  
- PATCH: Attached in http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48041742/texlive-
- bin_2005-5ubuntu0.2.debdiff
+ PATCH: Attached in http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48042338/texlive-
+ bin_2009-5ubuntu0.1_lp577305.debdiff
  
  INSTRUCTIONS: Create a bare-bones chroot without ed installed. Install
  texlive-binaries. Run `texconfig-sys paper letter`. Install ed. Run
  `texconfig-sys paper letter` again. Observe that texconfig now gives
  several lines of output of changed configuration files.
  
  REGRESSION: This is just adding a single dependency, so the regression
  potential should be minimal
  
  (Note that ed is depended on by ubuntu-standard, so the impact of this
  bug is comparatively slim, but it does affect things like build chroots)

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[SRU] Missing dependency on ed causes texconfig to fail silently in 
texlive-binaries
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/577305
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