Bug#920368: texlive-pictures: tikz fails in pgf
After receiving other complaints from users of ancient technology on Stack Exchange, I fixed this in upstream. It will be part of the next release which should be with TeX Live 2019 (or TeX Live 2019 pretest but I don't think Debian packages pretest). Keep in mind that everything that relies on \scantokens is bound to fail, such as the babel and quotes libraries. Kind regards, Henri
Bug#920368: texlive-pictures: tikz fails in pgf
Current PGF maintainer here.
PGF requires e-TeX. Try with etex, pdftex, luatex, or xetex.
Requiring e-TeX is a good assumption in my opinion because it was
introduced in 1998, i.e. is 20 years old today.
We will not make PGF non-e-TeX compatible, sorry.
Kind regards, Henri
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 20:34:08 +0100 Roland Rosenfeld
wrote:
> Package: texlive-pictures
> Version: 2018.20190122-1
> Severity: important
>
> On upgrade from 2018.20181214-1 to 2018.20190122-1 the testsuite of
> fig2dev package fails.
>
> The root cause for this seems to be in a change of pgf code.
>
> The fig2dev testsuite runs
>
> $ tex test.tex
>
> with the following test.tex input file:
>
> --- snipp -
> \input tikz
> \bye
> --- snipp -
>
> with the old version this runs without problems, while with the
> current version this fails with the following output:
>
> --- snipp -
> $ tex test.tex
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2019/dev/Debian) (preloaded
> format=tex)
> (./test.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/basiclayer/pgf.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/utilities/pgfrcs.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-common.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-common-lists.t
> ex))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-plain.def
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/atbegshi.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/infwarerr.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ltxcmds.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty)))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfrcs.code.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/pgf.revision.tex)))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/basiclayer/pgfcore.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/systemlayer/pgfsys.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/utilities/pgfrcs.tex)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer/pgfsys.code.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfkeys.code.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfkeysfiltered.code.t
> ex))
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> \pgfkeyssetevalue ...gfkeys@temptoks =\scantokens
> \expandafter
> {\expandafter...
>
> \pgfkeys@ifcsname ...\fi \ifpgfkeys@csname@test #2
> \else #3\fi
> \pgfkeys@ifcsname ...gfkeys@csname@test #2\else #3
> \fi
> \pgfkeys@ifcsname ...gfkeys@csname@test #2\else #3
> \fi
> \pgfkeys@unpack ...pgfeov \else \pgfkeys@case@one
> \fi \fi
> \pgfkeys@@normal ...pgfkeysnovalue =\pgfkeys@stop
> \pgfkeys@parse
> ...
Bug#920368: texlive-pictures: tikz fails in pgf
forwarded 920368 https://sourceforge.net/p/pgf/bugs/508 stop On 24.01.19 20:34, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > Package: texlive-pictures > Version: 2018.20190122-1 > Severity: important > > On upgrade from 2018.20181214-1 to 2018.20190122-1 the testsuite of > fig2dev package fails. > Forwarded to upstream for now. H. -- #206401 http://counter.li.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#920368: texlive-pictures: tikz fails in pgf
Package: texlive-pictures
Version: 2018.20190122-1
Severity: important
On upgrade from 2018.20181214-1 to 2018.20190122-1 the testsuite of
fig2dev package fails.
The root cause for this seems to be in a change of pgf code.
The fig2dev testsuite runs
$ tex test.tex
with the following test.tex input file:
--- snipp -
\input tikz
\bye
--- snipp -
with the old version this runs without problems, while with the
current version this fails with the following output:
--- snipp -
$ tex test.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2019/dev/Debian) (preloaded
format=tex)
(./test.tex (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz.tex
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/basiclayer/pgf.tex
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/utilities/pgfrcs.tex
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-common.tex
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-common-lists.t
ex)) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-plain.def
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/atbegshi.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/infwarerr.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ltxcmds.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty)))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfrcs.code.tex
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/pgf.revision.tex)))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/basiclayer/pgfcore.tex
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/systemlayer/pgfsys.tex
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/utilities/pgfrcs.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer/pgfsys.code.tex
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfkeys.code.tex
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfkeysfiltered.code.t
ex))
! Undefined control sequence.
\pgfkeyssetevalue ...gfkeys@temptoks =\scantokens
\expandafter {\expandafter...
\pgfkeys@ifcsname ...\fi \ifpgfkeys@csname@test #2
\else #3\fi
\pgfkeys@ifcsname ...gfkeys@csname@test #2\else #3
\fi
\pgfkeys@ifcsname ...gfkeys@csname@test #2\else #3
\fi
\pgfkeys@unpack ...pgfeov \else \pgfkeys@case@one
\fi \fi
\pgfkeys@@normal ...pgfkeysnovalue =\pgfkeys@stop
\pgfkeys@parse
...
l.17 \pgfkeys{/pgf/.is family}
?
--- snipp -
I'm not deep enough in TeX to understand what this means, but since
the input file is quite minimal and the behavior changed in a quite
bad way on upgrade, I think that this is a bug in the new texlive
distribution...
Greetings
Roland
