Erm, sorry, I spoke to quickly. When I saw tetex 2.0.2 mentioned, I tought woody, and therefore a different Perl version than is current sid. But, AFAICT, you were already talking about sid in both the working case (tetex 2.0.2) and the non-working case (tetex 3), so the Perl script should behave just the same in both cases. -- Florent