Bug#976191: texlive-latex-base: Fails to build formats for LaTeX

[Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>]

Am 01.12.2020 um 10:46 teilte Hilmar Preusse mit:

Hi,

> we uploaded latest CTAN snapshot to Debian. Now the format for LaTeX fail to build:
>
> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdflatex.ini </dev/null' return status: 1
> fmtutil [ERROR]: returning error due to option --strict
> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=latex -progname=latex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *latex.ini </dev/null' return status: 1
> fmtutil [ERROR]: returning error due to option --strict
> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `luatex -ini   -jobname=dvilualatex -progname=dvilualatex dvilualatex.ini </dev/null' return status: 1
> fmtutil [ERROR]: returning error due to option --strict
> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `luahbtex -ini   -jobname=lualatex -progname=lualatex lualatex.ini </dev/null' return status: 1
> fmtutil [ERROR]: returning error due to option --strict
> fmtutil [INFO]: log file copied to: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/luahbtex/lualatex.log
> fmtutil [INFO]: successfully rebuilt formats: 9
> fmtutil [INFO]: failed to build: 4 (pdftex/pdflatex pdftex/latex luatex/dvilualatex luahbtex/lualatex)
I could solve the issue by installing texlive-latex-recommended, which 
introduces

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xparse/xparse.ltx
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xparse/xparse-generic.tex

hille@sid:~ $ sudo apt install texlive-latex-recommended
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-luatex texlive-pstricks
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  texlive-latex-recommended
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 14.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 31.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable/main i386 
texlive-latex-recommended all 2020.20201129-2 [14.5 MB]
Fetched 14.5 MB in 2s (6,379 kB/s)
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
Selecting previously unselected package texlive-latex-recommended.
(Reading database ... 147880 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack 
.../texlive-latex-recommended_2020.20201129-2_all.deb ...
Unpacking texlive-latex-recommended (2020.20201129-2) ...
Setting up tex-common (6.15) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done.
Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done.
Building format(s) --all.
        This may take some time... done.
Setting up texlive-latex-recommended (2020.20201129-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.3-2) ...

H.
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