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Bug#747825: marked as done (texinfo: texi2dvi.1 is misbuilt)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #747825,
regarding texinfo: texi2dvi.1 is misbuilt
to be marked as done.

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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

-- no debconf information

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Version: 5.2.0.dfsg.1-3

On 11.05.14 Samuel Bronson (naesten@gmail.com) wrote:

Hi Samuel,

> 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.
> 
Thanks for your report, but:

texinfo (5.2.0.dfsg.1-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * fix broken man pages due to missing tex at build time (Closes:
    #740343)

 -- Norbert Preining <preining@debian.org>  Thu, 08 May 2014 07:09:44

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