Bug#750325: Test failures in Template::Plugin::LaTex ?

[RJ Clay]

On 06/25/2014 11:11 PM, Chris Travers wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:01 PM, RJ Clay <jame at rocasa.us> wrote:
>
>> There has been a bug reported in Debian on the package for the
>> Template::Plugin::LaTex module (libtemplate-plugin-latex-perl [1]), failing
>> to build from source (FTBFS) due to test failures.
>>
>> A transcript for the build attempt is included in the bug report, but it
>> appears to be 'Can't exec "xelatex"' type errors in showing up LaTex.Driver.

I've been testing it on two systems; both with Perl v5.18.2.  Where the 
tests passed; it has liblatex-driver-perl at v0.12-1, 
liblatex-encode-perl  at  v0.08-2, liblatex-table-perl at v1.0.6-2, and 
libtemplate-perl at v2.24-1.1. Where it failed (on Debian Jessie);  
liblatex-driver-perl at v0.200.4-1, liblatex-encode-perl at v0.091.5-1, 
liblatex-table-perl at v1.0.6-2, and libtemplate-perl  at  v2.24-1.1+b1 
(amd64).



>    (to successfully run the tests, you need to have XeTeX,
> PDFLatex, and a bunch of TexLive packages installed), and you can only
> install interactively.

As another found;  if the texlive-xetex package is installed, the 
"xelatex" related errors appear to be taken care of (but there are still 
other errors).  Which makes me wonder if there's a missing package 
dependancy... (perhaps in liblatex-driver-perl...)




>    I am hoping to put some time this weekend into
> redoing the installation and test cases so that it runs better on smoke
> testers, and passes tests on all systems which minimally meet the
> requirements for operation.
>

If I can be of help with that, please let me know.






RJ Clay