Bug#1134425: texmacs: does not work in foreign installations

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi Helmut, thanks for your feed back.
I will try to fix it by the week-end.

Best wishes,
Jerome

On Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:40 +0200 Helmut Grohne <helmut at subdivi.de> wrote:
> Package: texmacs-bin
> Version: 1:2.1.4+ds-5
> Severity: serious
> Justification: does not work at all in foreign installations
> 
> texmacs fails to run when texmacs-bin is installed for foreign
> architectures. Consider the following example:
> 
>     mmdebstrap --verbose --variant=apt unstable /dev/null --architecture=amd64,i386 --include=texmacs:i386 --chrooted-customize-hook=bash
> 
> Running texmacs then results in:
> 
>     /usr/bin/texmacs: line 76: exec: texmacs.bin: not found
> 
> This is due to /usr/bin/texmacs using dpkg-architecture to figure out
> where its installation is, but the package's architecture does not match
> the architecture reported by dpkg-architecture, so nothing is found. I
> argue that /usr/bin/texmacs should not be using dpkg-architecture at
> all. The previous implementation of interpolating the location at build
> time was correct.
> 
> As an application (as opposed to a library), coinstalling several
> texmacs-bin provides little use. The Multi-Arch: same annotation can
> easily be dropped without loss of functionality.
> 
> Helmut
> 
> 
> 

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