texlive-base fails to install in a clean and minimal sid chroot.

| $ mmdebstrap unstable /dev/null --variant=essential --include=texlive-base
| ...
| Setting up texlive-base (2026.20260911-1) ...
| mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST...
| mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
| mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
| mktexlsr: Done.
| tl-paper: setting paper size for dvips to a4: /var/lib/texmf/dvips/config/config-paper.ps
| tl-paper: setting paper size for dvipdfmx to a4: /var/lib/texmf/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx-paper.cfg
| tl-paper: setting paper size for xdvi to a4: /var/lib/texmf/xdvi/XDvi-paper
| tl-paper: setting paper size for pdftex to a4: /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/tex-ini-files/pdftexconfig.tex
| /etc/libpaper.d/texlive-base: 106: paperconf: not found
| dpkg: error processing package texlive-base (--configure):
|  old texlive-base package postinst maintainer script subprocess failed with exit status 127
| Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.43-7) ...
| Processing triggers for tex-common (6.21) ...
| update-language: texlive-base not installed and configured, doing nothing!
| texlive-base is not ready, skipping fmtutil --all call
| Errors were encountered while processing:
|  texlive-base
| E: Sub-process env returned an error code (1)
| ...

I guess there is a dependency on libpaper-utils missing.

Helmut

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
No, the dep is there. However in one of the latest uploads of
libpaper-utils, the paperconf utility was missing. It was reintroduced
this afternoon [1]. Are you still able to reproduce?

Hilmar

[1]
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libpaper/-/commit/0679b032962e4039fdb9c277cbcabc9ea218f4c4

I had hoped that the inclusion of a reproducer would settle this
question without another interaction. Your, hypothesis is very likely
correct and the reproducer no longer reproduces here. Closing.

Helmut