Bug#1076675: Broken french locale/babel setting (Undefined control sequence / Missing \begin{document})

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

Control: affects -1 linuxcnc dblatex
Control: reassign -1 texlive-lang-french
Control: found -1 2024.20240706-1

I had a closer look at the strace output and the content of the files
opened, and note that
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel-french/french.ldf from
the texlive-lang-french package contain the 'FBCompactItemize@setup'
symbol that is said to be a undefined control sequence.  Perhaps this is
really the package causing the problem?  Reassigning this issue there.

Just for the reconrd, after purging texlive-lang-french, dblatex return
this:

  Build the book set list...
  Warning: program compiled against libxml 212 using older 209
  Build the listings...
  Warning: program compiled against libxml 212 using older 209
  Warning: program compiled against libxml 212 using older 209
  XSLT stylesheets DocBook - LaTeX 2e (0.3.12)
  ===================================================
  Build test.pdf
  pdflatex failed
  /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty:4221: Package babel Error: Unknown option 'french'. Either you misspelled it
  /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty:4221: leading text: \ProcessOptions*
  Unexpected error occured
  Error: pdflatex compilation failed

So sadly removing the package to avoid the problem is not an option.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen