Bug#66765: problem with babel and french hyphenation patterns

[laurent bonnaud <Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr>]

Package: tetex-base
Version: 1.0-10
Severity: normal

Hi,

here is what happens when I compile this simple document:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[francais]{babel}
\begin{document}
Ceci est du français.
\end{document}

$ latex bug-babel-hyph.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(bug-babel-hyph.tex
LaTeX2e <1998/12/01> patch level 1
Loading CZ hyphenation patterns: Pavel Sevecek, v3, 1995
Loading SK hyphenation patterns: Jana Chlebikova, 1992
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 1999/01/07 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size11.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty beta test version
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/switch.def))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.ldf

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

))
No file bug-babel-hyph.aux.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ot2cyr/ot2wncyr.fd) [1] (bug-babel-hyph.aux) )
Output written on bug-babel-hyph.dvi (1 page, 244 bytes).
Transcript written on bug-babel-hyph.log.


This makes Debian hardly useable to produce french documents because
hyphenations are messed up.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux coeur 2.2.15 #1 Thu Jun 1 10:47:16 EST 2000 i686

Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii  dpkg-perl                     0.1-3.0    Perl interface modules for dpkg