Bug#487974: texinfo: Tilde in Debian revision breaks builds involving texinfo
On 9 March 2009 at 18:27, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
| 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?
Sure thing, esp as a new set of R release candidates is around the corner.
But I got bitten by another build-dependency issue -- texlive-base-bin
depends on libpoppler3 which seems to have vanished, yet has not yet been
rebuilt libpoppler4. Do you know anything about that?
Cheers, Dirk
| H.
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