Bug#487974: texinfo: Tilde in Debian revision breaks builds involving texinfo
reassign 487974 package texlive-base-bin
merge 487974 483966
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On 25.06.08 Dirk Eddelbuettel (edd@debian.org) wrote:
> Package: texinfo
> Version: 4.11.dfsg.1-4
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi Debian tex maintainers,
>
> GNU R, just like a lot of other packages, keeps its primary documentation in
> .info format and generates various outputs from it. As the R maintainer, I
> try to be pro-active during the R release cycle and usually prepare
> two or three alpha / beta / rc releases for which I follow the
> Debian convention of using '~' as a 'sorts lower than 0 revision'
> handle to indicate pre-releases of the upcoming new version. The
> most recent examples were r-base 2.7.1-1, 2.7.1~20080621-1 and
> 2.7.1~20080614-1, respectively.
>
> So far, so good. But as pbuilder creates temporary directories named
> $package-$debianVersion and that is where the 'tilde' reappears, with
> unpleasant side-effects. From my build log of 2.7.1~20080621-1:
>
>
> TEXINPUTS=".:$TEXINPUTS" /usr/bin/texi2dvi --texinfo="@set UseExternalXrefs " --pdf R-FAQ.texi
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Running pdfetex --file-line-error '/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.7.1~20080621/doc/manual/R-FAQ.t2d/pdf/xtr/R-FAQ.texi' ...
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> file:line:error style messages enabled.
> %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> ! I can't find file `/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.7.1'.
> <to be read again>
> \penalty
> ~->\penalty
> \@M \
> <*> /tmp/buildd/r-base-2.7.1~
> 20080621/doc/manual/R-FAQ.t2d/pdf/xtr/R-FAQ.texi
> Please type another input file name:
>
Bug/missing feature of the TeX compiler -> reassigning
H.
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