Hi Stuart, thanks for answering.
> Thanks for reporting that the autopkgtest fails; ci.d.n is not currently > testing packages in unstable and so I'd not seen that this was a problem yet. Hmmm, but this is the reason why texlive-base is blocked, according to https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=texlive-base Migration status for texlive-base (2019.20191208-4 to 2019.20200218-1): BLOCKED: Rejected/violates migration policy/introduces a regression > Teaching pyxplot about these new specials is the right thing to do here. The Well, in principle, but the package seems abandon from upstream, do you want to implement these new things? > autopkgtests aren't broken, they are correctly catching that pyxplot is > generating lots of nasty warnings that the user should not see. > > I'll take a look at this soon; it's easy enough to make the header special a I have asked the LaTeX team whether one can disable the loading of the l3backend-XXXXX.pro files, which could easily be integrated into the source code (that I checked already in the source code of pyxplot). Best Norbert -- PREINING Norbert https://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + IFMGA ProGuide + TU Wien + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Dev GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13