Source: octave-queueing
Version: 1.2.8-2
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
The octave-queueing package FTBFS with the following error (build log
truncated):
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[…]
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.28 (TeX Live 2025/Debian)
(preloaded format=pdfetex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./queueing.texi (/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
Loading texinfo [version 2025-07-31.19]: pdf, fonts, glyphs, page headings,
tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, macros,
cross references, insertions,
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex
This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.4 <14 February 2011>
) localization, formatting, microtype, and turning on texinfo input format.)
(/var/data/rlaboiss/debian/PKGS/octave-queueing/octave-queueing/doc/conf.texi)
[1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] [2]
(/var/data/rlaboiss/debian/PKGS/octave-queueing/octave-queueing/doc/queueing.to
c)
(/var/data/rlaboiss/debian/PKGS/octave-queueing/octave-queueing/doc/queueing.to
c) [-1] [-2]
(/var/data/rlaboiss/debian/PKGS/octave-queueing/octave-queueing/doc/queueing.to
c)
(/var/data/rlaboiss/debian/PKGS/octave-queueing/octave-queueing/doc/queueing.to
c)
(/var/data/rlaboiss/debian/PKGS/octave-queueing/octave-queueing/doc/summary.tex
i Chapter 1
(/var/data/rlaboiss/debian/PKGS/octave-queueing/octave-queueing/doc/queueing.au
x
/var/data/rlaboiss/debian/PKGS/octave-queueing/octave-queueing/doc/queueing.aux
:209: Undefined control sequence.
<argument> fig:qn@unhbox @voidb
@x @kern .07em @vbox {@hrule width.3em heigh...
@xrdef ...f @value ##1{##1}@xdef @safexrefname {#1
}}@bgroup @expandafter @gd...
l.209 ...ern .07em single-title}{!!float!!=Figure}
?
/var/data/rlaboiss/debian/PKGS/octave-queueing/octave-queueing/doc/queueing.aux
:209: Emergency stop.
<argument> fig:qn@unhbox @voidb
@x @kern .07em @vbox {@hrule width.3em heigh...
@xrdef ...f @value ##1{##1}@xdef @safexrefname {#1
}}@bgroup @expandafter @gd...
l.209 ...ern .07em single-title}{!!float!!=Figure}
/var/data/rlaboiss/debian/PKGS/octave-queueing/octave-queueing/doc/queueing.aux
:209: ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on queueing.log.
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:27: queueing.pdf] Error 1
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The problem seems to be with the texinfo.tex file that is shipped with
the texinfo package. The installed file
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex is loaded when processing the
queueing.tex file (see above).
The problem disappears when the latest upstream version of texinfo.tex
(2025-10-25.20) is used. It is available at the upstream Git
repository.[1]
FWIW, the version of texlive-base installed in my sid system is
2025.20250927-4.
Best,
Rafael Laboissière
[1] https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/tree/doc/texinfo.tex
