Bug#934036: sketch: FTBFS in stretch (LaTeX error)

[David Bremner]

Santiago Vila <sanvila at debian.org> writes:
> ./sketch.texi:257: Emergency stop.
> <recently read> @epsfxsize 
>                            
> @epsfspecial #1->@epsftmp =10 at epsfxsize 
>                                         @divide @epsftmp by @pspoints @ifnum...
>
> @epsfsetgraph ... to @epsfxsize {@epsfspecial {#1}
>                                                   @hfil }@else @vfil @hbox t...
>
> @imagexxx ...ysize =#3 at relax @fi @epsfbox {#1.eps}
>                                                   @else @doxeteximage {#1}{#...
>
> @image ...true @fi @else @imagexxx #1,,,,, at finish 
>                                                   @fi 
> <argument> @hfil @ignorespaces @image {ex000}
>                                              @unskip @hfil 
> ...
> l.257 @center @image{ex000}

That looks very similar to

     https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=916150

Although the timing is a bit confusing, since supposedly 916150 was
caused by a change to unstable in December of 2018

If someone wants to test, the fix for the previous incarnation was

iff --git a/Doc/make.pl b/Doc/make.pl
index 2259f74..d1c9868 100644
--- a/Doc/make.pl
+++ b/Doc/make.pl
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ sub make_example {
     print STDERR "latex example '$ex-tmp.tex':\n";
     system("sed -e s/TEXFILE/$ex/ makeex-tmp.tex > $ex-tmp.tex") == 0 or die "$!";
     system("latex $LATEX_OPTS $ex-tmp.tex") == 0 or die "$!";
-    system("dvips -E $ex-tmp -o tmp.eps") == 0 or die "$!";
+    system("dvips -E $ex-tmp -o $ex.eps") == 0 or die "$!";^M
     # fix up bounding box (originally this was not necessary; something was "improved")
-    system("epstool --copy --bbox tmp.eps $ex.eps") == 0 or die "$!";
-    unlink "tmp.eps";
+#    system("epstool --copy --bbox tmp.eps $ex.eps") == 0 or die "$!";^M
+#    unlink "tmp.eps";^M
     local *F;
     open(F, "> $ex.txt") or die "$!";
     print F "Image $ex omitted in text version of this document.";