[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#334736: xmltex: Fails to install in unstable (and probably testing)

[Frank Küster]

Package: xmltex
Version: 1.9-10
Severity: serious

>From the bug log of #334613, while upgrading sid to tetex-bin_3.0-9 with
xmltex installed:

Setting up tetex-bin (3.0-9) ...
Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time. ...
Error: `tex -ini  -jobname=xmltex -progname=xmltex &latex xmltex.ini' failed

###############################################################################
fmtutil-sys: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
Visit the log files in directory
  /var/lib/texmf/web2c
for details.
###############################################################################

The format creation fails because tetex now uses pdfetex as the engine
to create the latex format, and formats that load latex.fmt as xmltex
does must do the same.

I didn't investigate this, but I would be surprised if this works with
tetex-bin_2.0.2-31 in testing, because there we use etex, not tex, and I
think this needs a different pool file, too, and therefore leads to
incompatible formats.

Regards, Frank

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer