hyphenation misconfiguration in dapper

[Kristian Rink]

Trying to get over some strange error building a larger LaTeX document
after migrating from Debian sid to a recent Dapper Drake, I now see that, same
with this as with every new document I create, hyphenation doesn't
seem to work using Dappers tetex environment. Here's what I found out
about it, so far:

* Trying to build the package gives me a message like this:

--snip--
latex> Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
latex> (babel) the language `ngerman'
latex> (babel) I will use the patterns loaded for
\language=0 instead.
latex>
--snip--

most locale-specific stuff (umlauts et al) works, but hyphenation
doesn't, just gives me a bunch full of "Overful \hbox" messages.

* Tracking down the error, I found
/var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat to be responsible for
LaTeX language configuration, which is merely empty (besides a bunch
of comments) and, at the end, contains those lines:

--snip--
%%
%%% /etc/texmf/language.d/10tetex.cnf not included because the
%%% corresponding package seems to be removed.
%%
--snip--

This is strange, because at least /etc/texmf/language.d/10tetex.cnf
exists.

* Having a look at /usr/sbin/update-languages (which seems to be
responsible for building language.dat), I found that the files in
/etc/texmf/languages are only included if the package name is found in
/var/lib/tex-common/language-cnf/tetex-base.list - 10tetex isn't
within there per default, so the file is not included (why?).

* Anyhow, after 'cat'ing 10tetex.cnf to the end of language.dat,
hyphenation is still broken. Ther are no other tetex- or latex-
packages I might be missing or want to install, and as far as I looked
through the documentation of the ngerman package, the files required
for that are all in place in Dapper.

Note: the original reporter indicated the bug was in package 'tetex'; however, that package was not published in Ubuntu.

[anstei (anstei-deactivatedaccount)]

I confirm this bug - I have the same problem.

[Kristian Rink (kawazu)]

It _seems_ I found a solution to at least work around this: After reconfiguring _all_ installed tetex packages issuing

dpkg-reconfigure `dpkg -l|grep ^ii|grep tetex|awk '{print $2}'|xargs`

hyphenation now seems to work on both of my machines. But this doesn't explain why it is broken "by default" after a clean installation.

[anstei (anstei-deactivatedaccount)]

For me, the solution posted by MarkoNo5 in https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/tetex-bin/+bug/36145 worked - it seems that these bugs are closely related.

[Kristian Rink (kawazu)]

Obviously this is almost a duplicate of 36145, except for that it's been indeed a clean installation and not an update... :o

[Daniel Koskinen (koskinen)]

I can confirm this bug exists after a fresh install from the Dapper beta