Bug#263296: tetex-bin 2.0.2-17 broke "tex --parse-first-line"
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-17
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
tex --parse-first-line works fine up to version 2.0.2-16, and
does not work anymore since 2.0.2-17.
result on a 2.0.2-16:
madflo@rei:/tmp$ tex --parse-first-line x
This is TeXk, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
%&-line parsing enabled.
(./x.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, bahasa,
basque, cr
oatian, czech, danish, dutch, finnish, greek, italian, latin, magyar,
norsk, no
rsk, norsk, portuges, romanian, russian, slovak, slovene, spanish,
turkish, ukr
ainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (./x.aux) [1] (./x.aux) )
Output written on x.dvi (1 page, 220 bytes).
Transcript written on x.log.
Result on a 2.0.2-17:
This is TeXk, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
%&-line parsing enabled.
(./x.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
l.2 \documentclass
{article}
?
A very weird point, while tracking the bug:
- the host is a recent woody; upgraded properly to sid
- the first realease tested is a tetex-bin 2.0.2-17 vanilla
(taken on a close debian mirror). The bug is shown.
- apt-get source tetex-bin, and dpkg-buildpackage, and installing
the 2.0.2-17 homebuilt (via dpkg -i). Same bug.
- getting via ftp a previous release (2.0.2-16), installing with
dpkg -i. The bug disapears.
- re-installing the homebuilt 2.0.2-17 via dpkg -i. The bug does
not come back.
- re-installing the official 2.0.2-17 via apt-get install --reinstall.
The bug does not come back.
So there is probably on obscure link with the debian packaging system
somewhere... Perhaps something like "works in update, but not in
install".
As this is required in using TeX code in Metapost figures it broke a lot
of usages of the package (including various documentation systems based
on TeX/Metapost).
Moreover, this option (--parse-first-line) seems to be activated as a
default (was not in 2.0.2-5.1, but is in 2.0.2-16 and 2.0.2-17) which
seems weird (and is close to violating TeX's license since the behaviour
is modified without modifying the name).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.30 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.10.23 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-5 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libkpathsea3 2.0.2-17 path search library for teTeX (run
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-0.3 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-6 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libt1-5 5.0.2-3 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libwww-ssl0 [libwww0] 5.4.0-9 The W3C-WWW library (SSL support)
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii mime-support 3.28-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.4-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.1.1-1 The GNU sed stream editor
ii tetex-base 2.0.2a-2 Basic library files of teTeX
ii ucf 1.07 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-5 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
* tetex-bin/hyphen: bahasa, basque, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, finnish, french[=patois], greek, italian, latin, magyar, norsk[old], norsk[nohyphb.tex], norsk[nohyphbc.tex], portuges, romanian, russian, slovak, slovene, spanish, turkish, ukrainian[ukrhyph.tex]
tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
tetex-bin/upd_map: true
tetex-bin/cnf_name:
tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
* tetex-bin/use_debconf: true
tetex-bin/groupname: users
tetex-bin/userperm: false
tetex-bin/groupperm: true
tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true
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