On 28.02.14 David Bremner (bremner@debian.org) wrote:
> Package: texinfo
> Version: 5.2.0.dfsg.1-2
> Severity: normal
>
> /usr/share/man/man1/texi2pdf.1.gz is garbled to a comical degree.
>
> It's also wrong in that I _do_ have a working tex (namely that
> provided by texlive-binaries).
>
> I suspect that both points are the result of excessive faith in
> help2man.
>
Rather not, but an excessive faith of us. The texinfo package does
not declare a B/D on texlive-binaries. Hence the call of
./util/texi2dvi just generates the following output in the auto
builder:
You don't have a working TeX binary installed, but the texi2dvi
script can't proceed without it. If you want to use this script, you
have to install some kind of TeX, for example TeX Live Debian
packages. You can do that with this command:
apt-get install texlive
This is the text you finally see in the manual page.
We should either install texlive-binaries before build -- although the
package is never used except for the following test:
if ! command -v tex >/dev/null 2>&1; then
...or patch the script somehow to get the correct help for formatting.
I'd vote for the first.
H.
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