Bug#1003126: texlive-latex-recommended: xcolor package doesn't respect /etc/papersize
Package: texlive-latex-recommended
Version: 2021.20211217-1
Severity: normal
Hi,
I'm reporting this here because I think /etc/papersize might be a
Debian-ism, but I'd be happy to forward it upstream if needed.
It seems that the xcolor package (and actually the hyperref package from
texlive-latex-base) will force/default the papersize to letter, even
though /etc/papersize is a4.
I've noticed this while building documents with pandoc which uses xcolor
(and hyperref) in its latex template. If papersize is not specified in
the source document or the command line, that means the resulting PDF
will be in the letter format.
It'd be really better if both package, like the rest of the (Debian)
latex stack would respect the /etc/papersize setting.
Thanks for your work in any case!
Regards,
--
Yves-Alexis
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minimal input file
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other files
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List of ls-R files
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 80 Jun 29 2012 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3119 Jan 1 15:06 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Sep 4 11:34 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Dec 18 00:07 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Dec 18 00:07 /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 Sep 8 15:46 /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Dec 18 00:07 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf -> /var/lib/texmf/fmtutil.cnf-DEBIAN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Dec 18 00:07 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg -> /var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-DEBIAN
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2926 Dec 20 16:20 /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 Jun 26 2011 mktex.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Sep 8 15:46 texmf.cnf
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md5sums of texmf.d
ca40c66f144b4bafc3e59a2dd32ecb9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/00debian.cnf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (450, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages texlive-latex-recommended depends on:
ii tex-common 6.17
ii texlive-base 2021.20211217-1
ii texlive-binaries 2021.20210626.59705-1
ii texlive-latex-base 2021.20211217-1
texlive-latex-recommended recommends no packages.
Versions of packages texlive-latex-recommended suggests:
pn texlive-latex-recommended-doc <none>
ii texlive-luatex 2021.20211217-1
ii texlive-pstricks 2021.20211217-1
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii dpkg 1.21.1
ii ucf 3.0043
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii debhelper 13.6
Versions of packages texlive-latex-recommended is related to:
ii tex-common 6.17
ii texlive-binaries 2021.20210626.59705-1
-- debconf information:
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
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