Bug#398695: FTBFS: latex errors

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:

> recompiling advi under etch halts at the following latex prompt:
>
> ! LaTeX Error: File `advi.sty' not found.
>
> Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
> or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
>
>
>
> After manual intervention it continues building (which it shouldn't)
> but I suspect the debs will be incomplete.
>
> Full build log is attached.

There's even one more failure earlier: In one of the latex runs, it
wants to include eps files (e.g. bar.eps), but cannot find them (there's
no eps version of that files).  I think it's dvipdfm that has this
problem.

This bug is very strange: It's easily reproducible with pbuilder, even
if I log into the chroot and build manually with dpkg-buildpackage.
However, if I call the Makefile targets manually, the do not fail.

Oh, wait. I think I never tried to bypass dpkg-buildpackage as the first
thing, only after it had failed once.  Maybe it's an issue of not enough
runs, or the order of dependencies?  I also noticed that the package as
packed in orig.tar.gz and diff.gz is *not* clean, it ships generated
files in the doc directory.  Maybe there's a connection...

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)