Comment 1 for bug 157709

On Sa, 27 Okt 2007, Václav Šmilauer wrote:
> This is regression from texlive in feisty. Running latex on minimal
> document:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[latin]{babel}
> \begin{document}
> \end{document}

I cannot confirm that, on Debian/sid (no idea what feisty is) I can
convert this document without any problems, here is the log file:
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) (format=latex 2007.9.25) 27 OCT 2007 23:12
entering extended mode
**test.tex
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8g> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, croatian, ukrainian, russian, bulgarian, czech, slovak, danish, dut
ch, finnish, french, basque, german, ngerman, greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, i
bycus, hungarian, italian, latin, mongolian, norsk, slovene, estonian, welsh, i
nterlingua, icelandic, uppersorbian, romanian, indonesian, coptic, turkish, ser
bian, polish, portuguese, spanish, catalan, swedish, ukenglish, pinyin, loaded.

(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo
File: size10.clo 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX file (size option)
)
\c@part=\count79
\c@section=\count80
\c@subsection=\count81
\c@subsubsection=\count82
\c@paragraph=\count83
\c@subparagraph=\count84
\c@figure=\count85
\c@table=\count86
\abovecaptionskip=\skip41
\belowcaptionskip=\skip42
\bibindent=\dimen102
)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
Package: babel 2005/05/21 v3.8g The Babel package

(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/latin.ldf
File: latin.ldf 2005/03/30 v2.0f Latin support from the babel system

(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.def
File: babel.def 2005/05/21 v3.8g Babel common definitions
\babel@savecnt=\count87
\U@D=\dimen103
)
Package babel Info: Making " an active character on input line 182.
)) (./test.aux)
\openout1 = `test.aux'.

LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 3.

(./test.aux) )
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 526 strings out of 94307
 5975 string characters out of 1171513
 58135 words of memory out of 1000000
 3830 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000
 3640 words of font info for 14 fonts, out of 500000 for 2000
 647 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 24i,1n,24p,160b,36s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,5000p,200000b,5000s

No pages of output.

Best wishes

Norbert

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Debian Developer <email address hidden> Debian TeX Group
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