Bug#951970: gnuplot: FTBFS: configure: error: texdir is not given and there is no kpsexpand, please tell where to install

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: gnuplot
Version: 5.2.8+dfsg1-1
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS on amd64
Tags: buster sid
Usertags: ftbfs-20200222 ftbfs-buster

Hi,

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

Relevant part (hopefully):
> checking for dvips... dvips
> checking for troff... troff
> checking for latex2html... latex2html
> checking for kpsexpand... no
> checking for texhash... texhash
> configure: error:     texdir is not given and there is no kpsexpand, please tell where to install
> make[1]: *** [debian/rules:46: override_dh_auto_configure] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'

The full build log is available from:
   http://qa-logs.debian.net/2020/02/22/gnuplot_5.2.8+dfsg1-1_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.