Bug#317256: tetex-bin: \pdfadjustspacing and \pdfprotrudechars no longer working

["Silas S. Brown" <ssb22@cam.ac.uk>]

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-30
Severity: normal


When I was using Debian Woody, I would put
\pdfadjustspacing=2 \pdfprotrudechars=2 in the preambles of
my letters and other documents, and this would make a
positive difference to the spacing when typeset with
pdflatex.  After the upgrade to Sarge, the presence or
absence of this setting appears to make no difference
whatsoever to the printed output.  Certainly no characters
are protruded (verified by loading the output into The Gimp
and drawing a straight line down the right-hand margin) and
the spacing does not appear to be adjusted, and pdflatex
produces output that is identical to latex (i.e. none of
pdflatex's adjustments have taken effect).  I am using the
same documents as I used before, and I have not otherwise
tampered with the tetex distribution.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.23
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB)

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debconf                1.4.30.13         Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils            2.8.4             Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                   1.10.28           Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ed                     0.2-20            The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                  2.3.2.ds1-22      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                1:3.4.3-13        GCC support library
ii  libice6                4.3.0.dfsg.1-14   Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libkpathsea3           2.0.2-30          path search library for teTeX (run
ii  libpaper1              1.1.14-3          Library for handling paper charact
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.8rel-1        PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14   X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5             1:3.3.5-13        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libt1-5                5.0.2-3           Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii  libwww0                5.4.0-9           The W3C WWW library
ii  libx11-6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-14   X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxaw7                4.3.0.dfsg.1-14   X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-14   X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxmu6                4.3.0.dfsg.1-14   X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxt6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14   X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  mime-support           3.28-1            MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  perl                   5.8.4-8           Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed                    4.1.2-8           The GNU sed stream editor
ii  tetex-base             2.0.2c-8          Basic library files of teTeX
ii  ucf                    1.17              Update Configuration File: preserv
ii  xlibs                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-14   X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.1 compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  tetex-bin/updmap-failed:
  tetex-bin/hyphen: french[=patois], ngerman[=naustrian-neue_Rechtschreibung]
  tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
  tetex-bin/upd_map: true
* tetex-bin/cnf_name:
  tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
  tetex-bin/use_debconf: false
  tetex-bin/fmtutil-failed:
  tetex-bin/groupname: users
  tetex-bin/userperm: false
  tetex-bin/groupperm: true
  tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true