[debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Bug#338376: debiandoc-sgml-doc: FTBFS: debiandoc-sgml.en.pdf could not be generated properly

[Frank Küster]

reassign 338376 debiandoc-sgml
tags 338376 patch
thanks

Me again,

Frank Küster <frank at kuesterei.ch> wrote:

> - The first is to load the textcomp package with the "force" option:
>
> \usepackage[force]{textcomp}
>
>   But this might have other side effects; you'd have to carefully check
>   the rest of the document (I must admit that I don't understand the
>   sparse and not user-oriented documentation of the textcomp package,
>   which is only available after processing LaTeX's ltoutenc.dtx).

I have had a closer look at the debiandoc-sgml-doc.en.pdf,
and it seems as if someone carefully checked which sgml entities (or how
do you call that) are available in LaTeX, and replaced the others with
[NAME].  I assume that this person will also have checked whether the
output is correct, i.e. whether a LaTeX command with a given name gives
the output they want.  

Since the force option only restores the behavior we had in teTeX-2.0.2,
and it has been checked that this gave correct output, we can safely use
[force]. 

I suggest the patch below, and have verified that it fixes the FTBFS
bug.  If the bug is still open when I come back from vacation in the
second week of January, I'll NMU it.  Everybody else is wellcome to do
the same, of course, not to speak of a maintainer upload.

Regards, Frank

diff -Nur debiandoc-sgml-1.1.93/debian/changelog debiandoc-sgml-1.1.93.new/debian/changelog
--- debiandoc-sgml-1.1.93/debian/changelog	2005-12-10 17:04:15.000000000 +0100
+++ debiandoc-sgml-1.1.93.new/debian/changelog	2005-12-29 13:06:44.584193896 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+debiandoc-sgml (1.1.93.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * NMU to fix FTBFS of debiandoc-sgml-doc (closes: #338376)
+  * Load textcomp.sty with the force option, in order to convince it that
+    Palatino *really* has a currency symbol
+
+ -- Frank Küster <frank at debian.org>  Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:06:44 +0100
+
 debiandoc-sgml (1.1.93) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Avoid using dvips option -z if it fails such as for Debian Reference's
diff -Nur debiandoc-sgml-1.1.93/tools/lib/Format/LaTeX.pm debiandoc-sgml-1.1.93.new/tools/lib/Format/LaTeX.pm
--- debiandoc-sgml-1.1.93/tools/lib/Format/LaTeX.pm	2005-10-09 12:21:17.000000000 +0200
+++ debiandoc-sgml-1.1.93.new/tools/lib/Format/LaTeX.pm	2005-12-29 13:05:01.988790768 +0100
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
     output( "\n" );
     output( "\\usepackage{ifpdf}\n" );
     output( "\\usepackage{pifont}\n" );
-    output( "\\usepackage{textcomp}\n" );
+    output( "\\usepackage[force]{textcomp}\n" );
     output( "\\usepackage{wasysym}\n" );
     output( "\n" );
     output( "\\usepackage{babel}\n\n" )


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