Bug#740291: texlive-latex-extra: invoice package uses input instead of RequirePackage to include package fp
Package: texlive-latex-extra
Version: 2012.20120611-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream patch
Dear Maintainer,
The invoice package uses \input instead of \RequirePackage to include package
fp. Line 152 from file invoice.sty uses the following code:
\input{fp}
This seems to create incompatibilities with other packages such as wallpaper or
datatool (and probably many others).
Those problems could be avoided by replacing \input{fp} with
\RequirePackage{fp}.
Note: having seen the warnings provided by reportbug when preparing a report
for the TeX Team, I was truly hesitant about submitting this bug. I realize
that this issue is in no way the maintainers' fault, and it's something that
should be fixed upstream. However, considering that the fix is trivial and
could probably help other people, I finally decided to file the report. I
apologize in advance if you consider that this bug shouldn't have been
reported.
-------- Additional information
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1) Minimum working example
%----------------------------------------------
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{invoice}
\usepackage{wallpaper}
\begin{document}
Minimum working example
\end{document}
%----------------------------------------------
Running pdflatex on this file will produce the following error:
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/wallpaper/wallpaper.sty
! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
2) The problem described affects not only stable (texlive 2012.20120611) but
also the testing branch (texlive 2013.20140215) (the invoice.sty file is
exactly the same in both versions of texlive)
3) Here are some external links taken from tex.stackexchange which illustrate
the problem :
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/133566/combining-invoice-and-
datatool-to-create-serial-invoices
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/162446/problem-using-invoice-and-
wallpaper-packages-together
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##################################
minimal input file
##################################
other files
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List of ls-R files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1285 Feb 26 01:55 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jan 9 2013 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Oct 3 2012 /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEMAIN
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 80 Feb 26 01:55 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Oct 3 2012 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Oct 3 2012 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Oct 3 2012 /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEMAIN
######################################
Config files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Feb 21 23:01 /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3806 Feb 26 01:18 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Oct 3 2012 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg -> /var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-DEBIAN
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3752 Feb 26 01:18 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
######################################
Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Jan 9 2013 mktex.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Feb 21 23:01 texmf.cnf
######################################
md5sums of texmf.d
ca40c66f144b4bafc3e59a2dd32ecb9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/00debian.cnf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages texlive-latex-extra depends on:
ii dpkg 1.16.12
ii preview-latex-style 11.86-11
ii tex-common 3.15
ii texlive-binaries 2012.20120628-4
ii texlive-common 2012.20120611-5
ii texlive-latex-recommended 2012.20120611-5
ii texlive-pictures 2012.20120611-5
Versions of packages texlive-latex-extra recommends:
ii texlive-latex-extra-doc 2012.20120611-2
Versions of packages texlive-latex-extra suggests:
pn libfile-which-perl <none>
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.49
ii dpkg 1.16.12
ii ucf 3.0025+nmu3
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii debhelper 9.20120909
Versions of packages texlive-latex-extra is related to:
ii tex-common 3.15
ii texlive-binaries 2012.20120628-4
-- debconf information:
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
--- invoice.sty.wheezy 2011-10-04 00:00:00.000000000 -0300
+++ invoice.sty 2014-02-27 02:58:46.239307099 -0300
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
\RequirePackage{ifthen}
\RequirePackage{longtable}
\RequirePackage{calc}
-\input{fp}
+\RequirePackage{fp}
\input{invoice.def}
%
\newcommand{\InvoiceVersion}{0.9}%
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