Bug#1116506: texlive-latex-base: Building LuaTeX format fails during installation

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 05:56:44PM +0200, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> On 9/28/25 09:14, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> Hello all,

Hello Hilmar,

>...
> The file in question is in texlive-luatex. Does adding this package into
> build depends or installing the package solve the issue?

Fails:
apt-get --no-install-recommends install texlive-latex-base

Works:
apt-get --no-install-recommends install texlive-latex-base texlive-luatex

> Alternatively remove the lines
> 
> dvilualatex luatex language.dat,language.dat.lua dvilualatex.ini
> lualatex luahbtex language.dat,language.dat.lua lualatex.ini
> 
> from /var/lib/tex-common/fmtutil-cnf/texlive/texlive-latex-base.cnf

None of this is a solution for the packages that fail to build on the 
buildds e.g.because of a build dependency on docbook-utils, this is 
something that needs urgent fixing in the TeX Live packages.

> Hilmar

cu
Adrian