Bug#462610: texlive-xetex: Missing `xelatex.fmt' file

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

tags 462610 - unreproducible
retitle 462610 texlive-xetex: missing dependency on texlive-latex-base
tags 462610 + pending
thanks

On Sa, 26 Jan 2008, Frank Küster wrote:
> What's the output of 
> 
> kpsewhich --engine=xetex --var-value=TEXFORMATS
> kpsewhich --engine=xetex --show-path='fmt'
> grep TEXFORMATS /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
> grep TEXFORMATS /etc/texmf/texmf.d/*

and

	ls /etc/texmf/fmt.d/

I believe that the problem is rooted in a missing texlive-latex-base
installation. We are calling
	fmtutil-sys --all --conf-file /etc/texmf/fmt.d/10texlive-xetex.cnf
but that does in fact ignore formats for which the ini file is missing,
as in this case.

So xelatex.fmt is not present.

Then user calls xelatex, mktexfmt tries but sees that there is no
latex.ini, so does nothing, and xetex complains that it cannot find
xelatex.fmt.

Easy to reproduce: 
	$ cowbuilder --login
	$ apt-get install texlive-xetex
	...
	$ xelatex
	This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996-patch1 (Web2C 7.5.6)
	 %&-line parsing enabled.
	**\relax
	kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt
	I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'!
	$ apt-get install texlive-latex-base
	...
	$ xelatex
	...goes well
	$ exit

tpm2deb.cfg already changed in the svn repository.

Best wishes

Norbert

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Debian Developer <preining@debian.org>                         Debian TeX Group
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