Comment 16 for bug 26514

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:49:24 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?= <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: debian-reference: FTBFS with new tetex-bin: Error trying to
 create pdflatex.fmt

Daniel Schepler <email address hidden> wrote:

> Package: debian-reference
> Severity: serious
> Version: 1.08-4
>
>>From my pbuilder build log:
>
> ...
> ln -sf fix.txt.ent fix.ent
> debiandoc2text -l $(echo ja | bin/getlocale) quick-reference.ja.sgml
> bin/fixtxt ja quick-reference.ja.txt
> TEXINPUTS=3D3D$(pwd)/texmf/:$(kpsetool -n pdftex -p tex) \
> pdftex -ini pdflatex.ini > /dev/null
> make[1]: *** [pdflatex.fmt] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/debian-reference-1.08'
> make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2

I have looked into the makefile, and although I don't understand it
completely, the approach to using LaTeX seems fundamentally flawed.
Instead of building local formats, it would have been better to ask us
teTeX maintainers to enable those languages.

Now if it turns out that you still use languages that are not enabled or
even existent in tetex in sid, the mechanisms for local formats
described in the Debian TeX Policy Draft should be used - please look at
the tex-common package.

Second, it doesn't make sense to build the formats twice, once by
calling an engine with -ini directly, and a second time using fmtutil.

Regards, Frank
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Frank K=FCster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z=FCrich
Debian Developer