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Bug#204357: marked as done (tetex-bin: latex "help" messages: when \ ommitted from \newcommand error message is not helpful)

Your message dated Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:09:38 +0900
with message-id <20130910020938.GH30160@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
and subject line Closing old and upstream bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #204357,
regarding tetex-bin: latex "help" messages: when \ ommitted from \newcommand error message is not helpful
to be marked as done.

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Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-4.2
Severity: wishlist

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When a "\newcommand" argument does not start with the "\", the error
messages indicate that there is a missing \begin{document}, and the
help message (as displayed by aucTeX) says that output was produced
prior to the \begin{document}.  It does not in any way indicate that
the "\" was missing, and should.

This is probably a very common error, since "\newenvironment" takes a
first argument that does NOT start with a "\".  That's confusing.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux bittersweet.hegbloom.net 2.4.20-vp6+evms+xfs #1 SMP Tue Jul 8 21:21:18 PDT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set)

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debconf                     1.3.8        Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                 2.5.4        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                        1.10.10      Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ed                          0.2-20       The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                       2.3.1-17     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                     1:3.3.1-0rc2 GCC support library
ii  libkpathsea3                2.0.2-4.2    shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii  libpng12-0                  1.2.5.0-4    PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++5                  1:3.3.1-0rc2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwww-ssl0 [libwww0]       5.4.0-6      The W3C-WWW library (SSL support)
ii  libxaw7                     4.3.0-0ds4   X Athena widget set library
ii  perl                        5.8.0-19     Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  t1lib1                      1.3.1-1      Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii  tetex-base                  2.0.2-4.1    basic teTeX library files
ii  xlibs                       4.3.0-0ds4   X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.1.4-14   compression library - runtime

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Dear bug submitter,

the bug you have submitted against one of the TeX packages concerns
not the Debian packaging of TeX Live, nor the upstream TeX Live 
distribution itself, but Up-upstream, the original author of
the respective package.

TeX Live only collects what authors provide.

Thus, neither we, the Debian TeX Team, nor the Upstream TeX Live team
can fix anything regarding this bug.

Furthermore, the bug you have reported is rather old.

We suggest you to do the following:
* verify that the bug is still present with current TeX Live (2013)
  installation on Debian
* if yes, please report the bug to the *original* author of the TeX
  package, and *not* to upstream TeX Live nor Debian

Other ways to deal with these bugs are requesting help from TeX experts,
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Thanks a lot for your understanding

Norbert

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PREINING, Norbert                               http://www.preining.info
JAIST, Japan                                 TeX Live & Debian Developer
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