On 9 March 2009 at 18:27, Hilmar Preusse wrote: | On 25.06.08 Dirk Eddelbuettel ([email protected]) wrote: | | > Package: texinfo | > Version: 4.11.dfsg.1-4 | > Severity: normal | > | > Hi Debian tex maintainers, | > | > GNU R, just like a lot of other packages, keeps its primary documentation in | > .info format and generates various outputs from it. As the R maintainer, I | > try to be pro-active during the R release cycle and usually prepare | > two or three alpha / beta / rc releases for which I follow the | > Debian convention of using '~' as a 'sorts lower than 0 revision' | > handle to indicate pre-releases of the upcoming new version. The | > most recent examples were r-base 2.7.1-1, 2.7.1~20080621-1 and | > 2.7.1~20080614-1, respectively. | > | > So far, so good. But as pbuilder creates temporary directories named | > $package-$debianVersion and that is where the 'tilde' reappears, with | > unpleasant side-effects. From my build log of 2.7.1~20080621-1: | > | > | > TEXINPUTS=".:$TEXINPUTS" /usr/bin/texi2dvi --texinfo="@set UseExternalXrefs " --pdf R-FAQ.texi | > /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Running pdfetex --file-line-error '/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.7.1~20080621/doc/manual/R-FAQ.t2d/pdf/xtr/R-FAQ.texi' ... | > This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) | > file:line:error style messages enabled. | > %&-line parsing enabled. | > entering extended mode | > ! I can't find file `/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.7.1'. | > <to be read again> | > \penalty | > ~->\penalty | > \...@m \ | > <*> /tmp/buildd/r-base-2.7.1~ | > 20080621/doc/manual/R-FAQ.t2d/pdf/xtr/R-FAQ.texi | > Please type another input file name: | > ! Emergency stop. | > <to be read again> | > \penalty | > ~->\penalty | > \...@m \ | > <*> /tmp/buildd/r-base-2.7.1~ | > 20080621/doc/manual/R-FAQ.t2d/pdf/xtr/R-FAQ.texi | > ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! | > Transcript written on texput.log. | > /usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting. | > | > | > where as the build two days later of 2.7.1-1 produced this | > | > | > TEXINPUTS=".:$TEXINPUTS" /usr/bin/texi2dvi --texinfo="@set UseExternalXrefs " --pdf R-FAQ.texi | > /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Running pdfetex --file-line-error '/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.7.1/doc/manual/R-FAQ.t2d/pdf/xtr/R-FAQ.texi' ... | > This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) | > file:line:error style messages enabled. | > %&-line parsing enabled. | > entering extended mode | > (/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.7.1/doc/manual/R-FAQ.t2d/pdf/xtr/R-FAQ.texi | > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex | > Loading texinfo [version 2007-09-03.05]: pdf, fonts, page headings, tables, | > conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, macros, | > cross references, insertions, (./epsf.tex | > This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.3 <23 July 2005> | > ) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input format.) | > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-en.tex) [1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/up | > dmap/pdftex.map}] [-1] Chapter 1 | > Cross reference values unknown; you must run TeX again. [1] Chapter 2 [2] | > [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Chapter 3 [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] | > [17] [18] Chapter 4 [19] [20] Chapter 5 [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] | > [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] | > [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57] | > [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72] | > [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] [85] [86] [87] | > [88] [89] [90] [91] [92] [93] [94] [95] [96] [97] [98] Chapter 6 [99] [100] | > Chapter 7 [101] [102] [103] [104] [105] [106] [107] [108] [109] [110] [111] | > [112] Chapter 8 [113] Chapter 9 [114] [115] [116] Chapter 10 [117] [118] )</usr | > /share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmb10.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive | > /fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmbx12.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesk | > y/cm/cmcsc10.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmmi10.pfb></ | > usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmmi12.pfb></usr/share/texmf-tex | > live/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/blu | > esky/cm/cmr7.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr8.pfb></us | > r/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmsl10.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texli | > ve/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmsltt10.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bl | > uesky/cm/cmsy10.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmti10.pfb | > ></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmtt10.pfb></usr/share/texmf- | > texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmtt9.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/ | > bluesky/latex-fonts/lcircle1.pfb> | > Output written on R-FAQ.pdf (120 pages, 479628 bytes). | > Transcript written on R-FAQ.log. | > | > | > Notice how even the error message by texinfo is broken on the '~' in the | > first case. | > | The latest upload of texinfo into Debian is said to solve the | problem. It has been uploaded right now. Would you be so kind to | check, if it solves your problem?
Sure thing, esp as a new set of R release candidates is around the corner. But I got bitten by another build-dependency issue -- texlive-base-bin depends on libpoppler3 which seems to have vanished, yet has not yet been rebuilt libpoppler4. Do you know anything about that? Cheers, Dirk | H. | -- | sigmentation fault -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

