On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 02:16:45AM +0100, Gilles wrote: > Package: pdfscreen > Version: 1.5-6 > Severity: normal > > Hello. > > When "\usepackage[francais]{babel}" is present in the preamble, > the generated ".toc" file contains > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] {french} > > as its first line. And the following call to "pdflatex" complains: > > ! Undefined control sequence. > l.1 \select > @language {french} > ? > > Ignoring it (by pressing return) produces a pdf file containing > the string "@language french" printed just above the first entry > of the table of contents. > > When the reference to "babel" is commented out, the offending > disappears from the toc file. > [I assume that this could get annoying if e.g. hyphenation patterns > are needed...] FYI, this package has been removed, and won't be present in future stable releases. #214928 indicates that it was orphaned for 2 years, without anyone expressing interest in adopting it.
Finally, from http://ftp-master.debian.org/: | [Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:09:30 -0700] [ftpmaster: Jeroen van Wolffelaar] | Removed the following packages from unstable: | | pdfscreen | 1.5-6 | source, all | Closed bugs: 214928 | | ------------------- Reason ------------------- | RoQA; orphaned, no longer used by anything | ---------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]