Bug#989809: Loading chess.sty cause Babel error
Package: texlive-games
Version: 2018.20190227-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/chess/chess.sty
Dear Debian TeX maintainers,
Processing a document that uses chess.sty fails, for example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{chess}
\begin{document}
\end{document}
fails:
$ pdflatex test.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (TeX Live
2019/dev/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2018-12-01>
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2018/09/03 v1.4i Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/chess/chess.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/english.sty
! Package babel Error: You are loading directly a language style.
(babel) This syntax is deprecated and you must use
(babel) \usepackage[language]{babel}.
See the babel package documentation for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...
l.42 \bblstyerror
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
Imagine a large red swirl here.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{chess}
\begin{document}
\end{document}
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