Hi, debian-faq currently FTBFS because of the very same bug on french.
For the record, here is a workaround that can be called from debiandoc2* programs, which automatically removed such tags just before the final build: debiandoc2latex$* -s ./bin/fix-594846 -l $(currentlang) $< && mv $(manual).$* $(manual).$(currentlang).$* This file could be provided by the package under /usr/share/debiandoc-sgml/ Tested successfully on debian-faq-fr. -- Simon Paillard
#!/bin/sh # Remove \NoAutoSpaceBeforeFDP tags inside section to prevent PS/PDF failures # in french # See http://bugs.debian.org/594846 for more information # # Simon Paillard, May 2011 while getopts ":l:" opt do case ${opt} in l) locale=${OPTARG};; \? ) echo "unknown option \`${OPTARG}'"; exit -1;; esac done shift $((${OPTIND} - 1)) perl -ne \ ' if ( $_ =~ /^\\section/ ) { my ($line) = $_ ; $line =~ s/\{\\NoAutoSpaceBeforeFDP//g ; $line =~ s/\\AutoSpaceBeforeFDP\}//g ; print $line ; } else { print $_ ; }' < $1 > $2