Bug#264394: tetex-bin: e-TeX is broken on registers > 255
On 13.12.04 Benjamin BAYART (bayartb@edgard.fdn.fr) wrote:
> Le Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 09:28:48AM +0100, Hilmar Preusse:
Hi,
> > Script started on Sun Dec 12 21:50:59 2004
> > hille@preusse:~/bug/264394$ latex etex-bug.tex
> > This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20b-rc3-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)
> > entering extended mode
> > (./etex-bug.tex
> > LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
> > <snip>
> > (/opt/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsmath/amsopn.sty)) (./etex-bug.aux)
> > > \z@=\dimen256.
> > l.8 \show\z@
> >
> > ?
> > [1] (./etex-bug.aux) )
> > Output written on etex-bug.dvi (1 page, 264 bytes).
> > Transcript written on etex-bug.log.
> > hille@preusse:~/bug/264394$
> > Script done on Sun Dec 12 21:51:05 2004
> >
> > So can we assume that bug to be fixed?
>
> What version of which package are you using to obtain "This is
> pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20b-rc3-2.2" from just "latex" ?
>
> On my system, I have tetex-bin 2.0.2-17, and it claims:
> This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1
>
> The latest tetex-bin seems to be 2.0.2-24. There have been such a
> change without even a change in the upstream version number, just
> with changing the "debian release" part of the version number?
>
> In the "Debian Changelog", I see no item suggesting those changes:
> - change of the Knuth base source (3.14159 -> 3.141592)
> - change of the pdfTeX base source (1.10b -> 1.20b)
> - change of the eTeX base source (2.1 -> 2.2)
> - change of the web2c system (7.4.5 -> 7.5.3)
> - change of the LaTeX kernel (2001/06/01 -> 2003/12/01)
> - others I cannot state from your message...
>
> But, well, anyway, this bug seems to be fixed, which is the
> important point. I did not upgrade my system to 2.0.2-24 to check:
> I do not want to have so much changes in what I use than the ones
> which seems to be involved in this "minor" release.
>
Well I'm following the upstream development, to see which bugs will
be fixed, when we upload teTeX 3.0. The test was performed on teTeX
beta 2.99.4. And no, there is not recent debian package for teTeX
beta except on [1] and even if, we won't upload into unstable but
rather into experimental for various reasons.
Regards,
Hilmar
[1] http://people.debian.org/~frank
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