Bug#178622: tetex-bin: Cannot change pool size to compile large files

[rbm@math.mit.edu]

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20021025-8
Severity: normal
Tags: sid

 I am unable to get certain large files to compile under text version
 1.0.2+20021025-7. The error message I receive is typically
 ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [parameter stack size=6000].
 This is after increasing all relevant parameters. It seems that the
 6000 here is some sort of intrinsic limit. Initially it is 1500 but
 when I
 increase what look like the relevant parameters
 param_size = 25000      % simultaneous macro parameters
 save_size = 25000       % for saving values outside current group
 stack_size = 25000      % simultaneous input sources
 it gets no larger than 6000.

 Note that I had no difficulty with version _1.0.2+20011202-2
 and earlier -- simply increasing pool_size to a large enough
 value allowed (and allows) me to compile the same file.

 Am I missing something with regard to the parameters, or has something
 got messed up somewhere?

 Richard Melrose

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux bromwich 2.4.20 #9 Wed Jan 15 15:19:55 CLST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debconf                 1.2.21           Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils             2.1.4            Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                    1.10.9           Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ed                      0.2-19           The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                   2.3.1-9          GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libkpathsea3            1.0.7+20021025-8 shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.5-9          PNG library - runtime
ii  libwww0                 5.4.0-5          The W3C WWW library
ii  libxaw7                 4.2.1-4          X Athena widget set library
ii  t1lib1                  1.3.1-1          Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii  tetex-base              1.0.2+20021025-7 basic teTeX library files
ii  xlibs                   4.2.1-4          X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.1.4-9        compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
* tetex-bin/cnf_name: 
  tetex-bin/userperm: false
* tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
  tetex-bin/groupname: users
  tetex-bin/groupperm: true
* tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true