[R-pkg-team] Bug#1050807: r-bioc-biocstyle: autopkgtest fails since TL 2023

[Hilmar Preusse]

Source: r-bioc-biocstyle
Version: 2.28.0+dfsg-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I just noticed, that the autopkgtest of your package fail, since I uploaded
TL 2023 to unstable [1].

178s You can now run (pdf)latex on ‘maketitle_test_1.tex’
179s Timing stopped at: 0.754 0.102 1.264
179s Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  : 
179s   Running 'texi2dvi' on 'maketitle_test_1.tex' failed.
179s LaTeX errors:
179s ! LaTeX Error: Command \@raggedtwoe at everyselectfont undefined.

The reason seems to be a change in the ragged2e package, which does not provide the
\@raggedtwoe at everyselectfont command any more [2]. Hence the following code in
Bioconductor.sty does not work any more:

\renewcommand{\@raggedtwoe at everyselectfont}{%
  \if at raggedtwoe@spaceskip
    \ifdim\fontdimen\thr@@\font=\z@\relax
      \if at inside@soul
<snip>

As first step I'd try to replace the \renewcommand by a \newcommand. On the
long run upstream should evaluate if the patch is still needed or if the issue
has been solved in the meantime.

Hilmar

[1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/r/r-bioc-biocstyle/testing/amd64/
[2] https://gitlab.com/TeXhackse/ragged2e/-/commit/031fc83cf10b663d820881ded59c8f304631c37c

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
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Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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