listings.sty version doesn't compile with KOMA classes in texlive 2007-13

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Binary package hint: texlive-latex-recommended

Binary package hint: texlive-latex-recommended 2007-13 in ubuntu hardy
Source package hint: texlive-base 2007-13 (source) in ubuntu hardy

listings.sty version 1.3 of 2004/09/07 doesn't work with KOMA classes, tested with scrartcl, scrbook and scrreprt, using texlive 2007-13 on Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy), confirmed on standard x86 and amd64 installation.

The compilation stops with an error message when calling \lstlistoflistings. Minimal example:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{listings}
\begin{document}
\lstlistoflistings
\end{document}

Error message:
! Undefined control sequence.
\lstlistoflistings ...\lol@heading \@parskipfalse
                                                  \@parskip@indent \@startto...
l.5 \lstlistoflistings

\@parskip was used by older KOMA script versions but not by the KOMA classes included in texlive 2007-13.
The compilation of the example above works with listings.sty version 1.4 of 2007/02/22. I recommend to include at least version 1.4 in texlive further on.

[Andreas Göb (agoeb)]

Problem (and solution) confirmed for me on Hardy amd64. Version 1.4 of 2007/02/22 is the latest available from http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings/ and works with the KOMA classes included in texlive 2007-13.

For those who do not want to manually install the new version manually, there is a workaround. You can redefine the \lstlistoflistings command like this in your document header:

\makeatletter%
\renewcommand*{\lstlistoflistings}{%
  \begingroup
    \if@twocolumn
      \@restonecoltrue\onecolumn
    \else
      \@restonecolfalse
    \fi
    \lol@heading
    \setlength{\parskip}{\z@}%
    \setlength{\parindent}{\z@}%
    \setlength{\parfillskip}{\z@ \@plus 1fil}%
    \@starttoc{lol}%
    \if@restonecol\twocolumn\fi
  \endgroup
}
\makeatother

(taken from http://www.komascript.de/node/477)

[Stefan Kottwitz (stefan.k)]

Confirmed by Nina Feyh and Andreas Göb as written on 2008-08-19.

[Sam Liddicott (sam-liddicott)]

I really wish launchpad had a paypal integrated bounty system so we could pay to have bugs fixed. 16 months and two ubuntu releases later we're still running a 3.5 year old package that was bugfixed 2 years 8 months ago.

Boxed listings also fail to render.

\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{babel}

\begin{document}
%
\framebox{\begin{minipage}[t]{1\columnwidth}%

\begin{lstlisting}
hello
\end{lstlisting}
%
\end{minipage}}
\end{document}