Bug#874632: texinfo: inconsistent papersize for generated dvi and ps
Package: texinfo
Version: 6.4.90.dfsg.1-1+b1
Severity: important
When generating the MPFR manual, the contents are always in A4.
FYI, the mpfr.texi file has:
@iftex
@afourpaper
@end iftex
But on one of my machines (from which this bug is reported), the
generated dvi and ps have a letter papersize, so that the contents
may be partly truncated. Note that another Debian/unstable machine
(which has the same config, AFAIK) does not have this issue.
This silently occurs, so that for instance, one may upload incorrect
files to a web server, which is really annoying.
The generated pdf is OK on both machines (a4 contents, a4 papersize).
In case this matters (but this shouldn't), the paperconf command
outputs a4 on both machines.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages texinfo depends on:
ii libc6 2.24-17
ii libtext-unidecode-perl 1.30-1
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0128+dfsg-3
ii perl 5.26.0-5
ii perl-base [perlapi-5.26.0] 5.26.0-5
ii tex-common 6.09
texinfo recommends no packages.
Versions of packages texinfo suggests:
ii texinfo-doc-nonfree 6.4.0-1
ii texlive-base 2017.20170818-1
ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2017.20170818-1
ii texlive-generic-recommended 2017.20170818-1
ii texlive-latex-base 2017.20170818-1
-- no debconf information
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