Bug#747825: texinfo: texi2dvi.1 is misbuilt
Package: texinfo
Version: 5.2.0.dfsg.1-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer, I just tried to do "man texi2dvi", and was quite
puzzled by the results, until I realized that it was probably what
happens when you try to generate a manpage for texi2dvi using help2man
without having a working "tex" binary installed.
Looking at the code of texi2dvi and at the output of "apt-cache showsrc
texi2dvi", I'm pretty sure that's exactly what happened here, and I can
see several options for you:
1. Build-Depend on texlive-binaries
2. Fix "texi2dvi --help" to still print the usage information even if it
can't find a tex binary; it might be best if the warning was also
included, though, since that's a useful thing to have in the manpage.
3. Build the manpage as part of your "new upstream tarball" procedure;
you already must have one of these because of the manual, so you
might be able to work this into your script for that?
I think the best choice is probably 2, though 1 is obviously the
easiest.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages texinfo depends on:
ii libc6 2.18-4
ii libintl-perl 1.23-1
ii libtext-unidecode-perl 0.04-2
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0108+dfsg-1
texinfo recommends no packages.
Versions of packages texinfo suggests:
ii texinfo-doc-nonfree 5.2.0-1
ii texlive-base 2013.20140314-1
ii texlive-generic-recommended 2013.20140314-1
ii texlive-latex-base 2013.20140314-1
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