[debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Bug#338376: \usepackage[force]{textcomp} side effects for debiandoc-sgml

[Ralf Stubner]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 19:36 +0100, Jens Seidel wrote:
> 
> debiandoc-sgml does no longer build Debian FAQ.
> 
> $ latex /tmp/error.tex
> This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)

That's teTeX 2.0. :-(

> entering extended mode
> (/tmp/error.tex
> LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
> Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, ngerman, nohyphenation, lo
> aded.
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/book.cls
> Document Class: book 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo))
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/textcomp.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ts1enc.def))
> 
> ! LaTeX Error: Unknown option `force' for package `textcomp'.

According to http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/debiandoc-sgml.html
debiandoc-sgml 1.1.94, which contains this fix for teTeX 3.0, migrated
to testing.  Unfortunately, teTeX 3.0 has not yet migrated to testing.
And the fix is incompatible with the teTeX 2.0.2 that is in testing.
Hopefully, teTeX 3.0 will migrate to testing in the next couple of days,
which would then solve this problem. I don't see a clean and simple
solution for this.

cheerio
ralf