[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#952231: splash: FTBFS: ! LaTeX Error: File `letltxmacro.sty' not found.

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: splash
Version: 2.9.1-1
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS on amd64
Tags: bullseye sid ftbfs
Usertags: ftbfs-20200222 ftbfs-bullseye

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build
on amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
> make[3]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/build'
> cd ../docs; pdflatex splash; pdflatex splash
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./splash.tex
> LaTeX2e <2020-02-02> patch level 2
> L3 programming layer <2020-02-14>
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2019/12/20 v1.4l Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/natbib/natbib.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/rotating.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-cfg/graphics.cfg)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-def/pdftex.def)))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/longtable.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/url/url.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty
> For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsbsy.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsopn.sty))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/nameref.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/refcount/refcount.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ltxcmds/ltxcmds.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/infwarerr/infwarerr.sty))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/gettitlestring/gettitlestring.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/kvoptions/kvoptions.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/kvsetkeys/kvsetkeys.sty))))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/mathptmx.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/iftex/iftex.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdftexcmds/pdftexcmds.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/kvdefinekeys/kvdefinekeys.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pdfescape/pdfescape.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hycolor/hycolor.sty)
> 
> ! LaTeX Error: File `letltxmacro.sty' not found.
> 
> Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
> or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
> 
> Enter file name: 
> ! Emergency stop.
> <read *> 
>          
> l.132 \RequirePackage{letltxmacro}[2008/06/13]
>                                               ^^M
> !  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
> Transcript written on splash.log.
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./splash.tex
> LaTeX2e <2020-02-02> patch level 2
> L3 programming layer <2020-02-14>
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2019/12/20 v1.4l Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/natbib/natbib.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/rotating.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-cfg/graphics.cfg)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-def/pdftex.def)))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/longtable.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/url/url.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty
> For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsbsy.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsopn.sty))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/nameref.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/refcount/refcount.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ltxcmds/ltxcmds.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/infwarerr/infwarerr.sty))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/gettitlestring/gettitlestring.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/kvoptions/kvoptions.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/kvsetkeys/kvsetkeys.sty))))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/mathptmx.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/iftex/iftex.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdftexcmds/pdftexcmds.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/kvdefinekeys/kvdefinekeys.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pdfescape/pdfescape.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hycolor/hycolor.sty)
> 
> ! LaTeX Error: File `letltxmacro.sty' not found.
> 
> Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
> or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
> 
> Enter file name: 
> ! Emergency stop.
> <read *> 
>          
> l.132 \RequirePackage{letltxmacro}[2008/06/13]
>                                               ^^M
> !  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
> Transcript written on splash.log.
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:864: doc] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://qa-logs.debian.net/2020/02/22/splash_2.9.1-1_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.