Bug#1118328: gnutls28: FTBFS: LaTeX error: ./gnutls.aux:105: Undefined control sequence.

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2025-10-25 "Preuße, Hilmar via Pkg-gnutls-maint" <pkg-gnutls-maint at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:
> On 10/25/2025 7:39 AM, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> Hello Andreas,

> > It can be simplified further by expanding the macro:

> <snip>

> > Upgrading to the latest texinfo.tex file (2025-07-11.23) does not help.
> > I will try to bisect for the respective texinfo.tex change.
> > 
> > cu Andreas
> > 

> I'm not sure if it makes sense to investigate further. I would have simply
> classified that as "incompatibility between newer texinfo.tex and old
> TeXInfo". Keep in mind that TeXInfo 7.2 is already quite old.

Hello,

Well, 7.2 is the latest release and
https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ explicitly suggest: "texinfo.tex
is updated much more frequently than full Texinfo releases are made;
please use the latest version."

The breakage occured at 
798ff967bbf66d94089569f9509c9dc12730462d
    @*heading for "@xrefautomaticsectiontitle on"

    * doc/texinfo.tex (\setref, \donoderef): take an extra argument
    instead of referring to \currentsection.
    (\currentsection): remove use throughout.

    No functional changes intended.

I have sent a report to bug-texinfo ML, it seems to be stuck in the
moderation queue right now, though.

BTW Thanks for finding that this depends on the version of texinfo.tex.
- I am sure this would have taken me a long time to find wy my minimal
example suddenly stopped failing

cu Andreas
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