Bug#900980: pdflatex: error when non-ASCII is used in ProvidesPackage macro
Package: texlive-latex-base
Version: 2018.20180505-1
Severity: normal
Compiling the attached MWE fails. It used to succeed in Debian sid before.
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tglase@tglase:~ $ pdflatex xdoc.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (TeX Live 2018/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./xdoc.tex
LaTeX2e <2018-04-01> patch level 4
Babel <3.20> and hyphenation patterns for 84 language(s) loaded.
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (./xstyle.sty
! Undefined control sequence.
\GenericError ...
#4 \errhelp \@err@ ...
l.2 ...Teckids Teχ/LᴬTᴇX style, second epoch]
%
? X
No pages of output.
Transcript written on xdoc.log.
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When commenting out line 2 in xstyle.sty and uncommenting
line 3, which uses only ASCII, it works.
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minimal input file
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other files
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List of ls-R files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2102 Jun 6 13:02 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Aug 17 2017 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 May 5 08:52 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 May 5 08:52 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
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Config files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Aug 22 2017 /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 May 5 08:52 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf -> /var/lib/texmf/fmtutil.cnf-DEBIAN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 May 5 08:52 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg -> /var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-DEBIAN
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5068 Jun 6 13:01 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
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Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Nov 26 2007 mktex.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Aug 22 2017 texmf.cnf
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md5sums of texmf.d
ca40c66f144b4bafc3e59a2dd32ecb9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/00debian.cnf
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Foreign Architectures: i386, amd64
Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
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Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
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Versions of packages texlive-latex-base depends on:
ii fonts-lmodern 2.004.5-3
ii tex-common 6.09
ii texlive-base 2018.20180505-1
ii texlive-binaries 2018.20180416.47457-4
texlive-latex-base recommends no packages.
Versions of packages texlive-latex-base suggests:
ii texlive-latex-base-doc 2018.20180505-1
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1
ii ucf 3.0038
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii debhelper 11.3.2
Versions of packages texlive-latex-base is related to:
ii tex-common 6.09
ii texlive-binaries 2018.20180416.47457-4
-- debconf information:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}%
\ProvidesPackage{xstyle}[2018/03/10 1.1 Teckids Teχ/LᴬTᴇX style, second epoch]%
%\ProvidesPackage{xstyle}[2018/03/10 1.1 Teckids TeX/LaTeX style, second epoch]%
\documentclass{article}%
\usepackage{xstyle}%
\begin{document}
foo
\end{document}
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