The maintainer has "fixed" this upstream in debian unstable by downgrading to 2.10.08. I'm going to change this to a sync request for the upstream version.
** Summary changed: - Syntax error in /usr/bin/mtxrun.lua + Sync luametatex 2.11.01+really2.10.08+ds-1 from debian unstable ** Description changed: - There appears to be a syntax error in /usr/bin/mtxrun.lua that causes - mtxrun --generate to fail: + Please sync luametatex 2.11.01+really2.10.08+ds-1 from debian unstable. + Bug details are below. + + Debian changelog entry: + luametatex (2.11.01+really2.10.08+ds-1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Downgrade to 2.10.08 (Closes: #1064402). + + -- Hilmar Preusse <[email protected]> Wed, 06 Mar 2024 23:18:47 +0100 + + Original bug report: + There appears to be a syntax error in /usr/bin/mtxrun.lua that causes mtxrun --generate to fail: mtxrun --generate lua error : startup file: /usr/bin/mtxrun.lua:2438: attempt to assign to const variable 'i' This is present in luametatex 2.11.01+ds-2, but not in version 2.10.08+ds-1 This generate command gets called in postinst, most notably in tex- common, resulting in: # dpkg-reconfigure tex-common Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Running mtxrun --generate. This may take some time... mtxrun --generate failed. Output has been stored in /tmp/mtxrun.ZOxZraWH Please include this file if you report a bug. # cat /tmp/mtxrun.ZOxZraWH lua error : startup file: /usr/bin/mtxrun.lua:2438: attempt to assign to const variable 'i' This is being tracked upstream in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1064402 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2055216 Title: Sync luametatex 2.11.01+really2.10.08+ds-1 from debian unstable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/luametatex/+bug/2055216/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
