Bug#487974: texinfo: Tilde in Debian revision breaks builds involving texinfo
On 25.06.08 Dirk Eddelbuettel (edd@debian.org) wrote:
> Package: texinfo
> Version: 4.11.dfsg.1-4
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi Debian tex maintainers,
>
> GNU R, just like a lot of other packages, keeps its primary documentation in
> .info format and generates various outputs from it. As the R maintainer, I
> try to be pro-active during the R release cycle and usually prepare
> two or three alpha / beta / rc releases for which I follow the
> Debian convention of using '~' as a 'sorts lower than 0 revision'
> handle to indicate pre-releases of the upcoming new version. The
> most recent examples were r-base 2.7.1-1, 2.7.1~20080621-1 and
> 2.7.1~20080614-1, respectively.
>
> So far, so good. But as pbuilder creates temporary directories named
> $package-$debianVersion and that is where the 'tilde' reappears, with
> unpleasant side-effects. From my build log of 2.7.1~20080621-1:
>
>
> TEXINPUTS=".:$TEXINPUTS" /usr/bin/texi2dvi --texinfo="@set UseExternalXrefs " --pdf R-FAQ.texi
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Running pdfetex --file-line-error '/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.7.1~20080621/doc/manual/R-FAQ.t2d/pdf/xtr/R-FAQ.texi' ...
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> file:line:error style messages enabled.
> %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> ! I can't find file `/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.7.1'.
> <to be read again>
> \penalty
> ~->\penalty
> \@M \
> <*> /tmp/buildd/r-base-2.7.1~
> 20080621/doc/manual/R-FAQ.t2d/pdf/xtr/R-FAQ.texi
> Please type another input file name:
> ! Emergency stop.
> <to be read again>
> \penalty
> ~->\penalty
> \@M \
> <*> /tmp/buildd/r-base-2.7.1~
> 20080621/doc/manual/R-FAQ.t2d/pdf/xtr/R-FAQ.texi
> ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
> Transcript written on texput.log.
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting.
>
>
> where as the build two days later of 2.7.1-1 produced this
>
>
> TEXINPUTS=".:$TEXINPUTS" /usr/bin/texi2dvi --texinfo="@set UseExternalXrefs " --pdf R-FAQ.texi
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Running pdfetex --file-line-error '/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.7.1/doc/manual/R-FAQ.t2d/pdf/xtr/R-FAQ.texi' ...
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> file:line:error style messages enabled.
> %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.7.1/doc/manual/R-FAQ.t2d/pdf/xtr/R-FAQ.texi
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
> Loading texinfo [version 2007-09-03.05]: pdf, fonts, page headings, tables,
> conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, macros,
> cross references, insertions, (./epsf.tex
> This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.3 <23 July 2005>
> ) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input format.)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-en.tex) [1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/up
> dmap/pdftex.map}] [-1] Chapter 1
> Cross reference values unknown; you must run TeX again. [1] Chapter 2 [2]
> [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Chapter 3 [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]
> [17] [18] Chapter 4 [19] [20] Chapter 5 [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27]
> [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42]
> [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57]
> [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72]
> [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] [85] [86] [87]
> [88] [89] [90] [91] [92] [93] [94] [95] [96] [97] [98] Chapter 6 [99] [100]
> Chapter 7 [101] [102] [103] [104] [105] [106] [107] [108] [109] [110] [111]
> [112] Chapter 8 [113] Chapter 9 [114] [115] [116] Chapter 10 [117] [118] )</usr
> /share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmb10.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive
> /fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmbx12.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesk
> y/cm/cmcsc10.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmmi10.pfb></
> usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmmi12.pfb></usr/share/texmf-tex
> live/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/blu
> esky/cm/cmr7.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr8.pfb></us
> r/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmsl10.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texli
> ve/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmsltt10.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bl
> uesky/cm/cmsy10.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmti10.pfb
> ></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmtt10.pfb></usr/share/texmf-
> texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmtt9.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/
> bluesky/latex-fonts/lcircle1.pfb>
> Output written on R-FAQ.pdf (120 pages, 479628 bytes).
> Transcript written on R-FAQ.log.
>
>
> Notice how even the error message by texinfo is broken on the '~' in the
> first case.
>
The latest upload of texinfo into Debian is said to solve the
problem. It has been uploaded right now. Would you be so kind to
check, if it solves your problem?
H.
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