Package: tex-common Version: 6.20 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
After a partial upgrade (suggested by aptitude):
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Setting up libsynctex-dev:amd64 (2026.20260303.78225+ds-4) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.42-16) ...
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Processing triggers for tex-common (6.20) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running mtxrun --generate. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --all.
This may take some time...
fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in
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Please include this file if you report a bug.
dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure):
old tex-common package postinst maintainer script subprocess failed with exit
status 1
Processing triggers for install-info (7.3-2) ...
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in
`/usr/share/info/maxima-index-html.lisp.gz'
Errors were encountered while processing:
tex-common
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I can see:
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fmtutil [INFO]: log file copied to: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/mllatex.log
fmtutil [INFO]: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/mllatex.fmt installed.
fmtutil [INFO]: --- remaking hilatex with hitex
fmtutil: running `hitex -ini -jobname=hilatex -progname=hilatex -etex -ltx hil
atex.ini' ...
This is HiTeX 2.0, TeX version 3.141592653 (TeX Live 2026) (INITEX)
entering extended mode
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/hitex/base/hilatex.ini
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/texsys.cfg)
./texsys.aux found
\@currdir set to: ./.
Assuming \openin and \input
have the same search path.
Defining UNIX/DOS style filename parser.
catcodes, registers, parameters,
LaTeX2e <2025-11-01>
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3kernel/expl3.ltx
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3kernel/expl3-code.tex
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<argument> \???
! LaTeX Error: Charcode requested out of engine range.
l.35568 }
! Use of \??? doesn't match its definition.
<argument> \???
! LaTeX Error: Charcode requested out of engine range.
l.35568 }
! LaTeX Error: Control sequence \c__codepoint_nfd__tl already defined.
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(That makes 100 errors; please try again.)
Transcript written on hilatex.log.
fmtutil [INFO]: log file copied to: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/hitex/hilatex.log
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fmtutil [INFO]: log file copied to: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/mltex.log
fmtutil [INFO]: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/mltex.fmt installed.
fmtutil [ERROR]: no (or empty) hilatex.fmt made by: hitex -ini
-jobname=hilatex -progname=hilatex -etex -ltx hilatex.ini </dev/null
fmtutil [INFO]: disabled formats: 3
fmtutil [INFO]: successfully rebuilt formats: 49
fmtutil [INFO]: failed to build: 1 (hitex/hilatex)
fmtutil [INFO]: total formats: 53
fmtutil [INFO]: executable location: /usr/bin/fmtutil
fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 1
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500,
'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'),
(500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 7.0.4+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii bzip2 1.0.8-6
ii ucf 3.0053
tex-common recommends no packages.
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii debhelper 13.31
Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.92
ii libpaper-utils 2.2.5-0.4
ii sensible-utils 0.0.26
ii texlive-binaries 2026.20260303.78225+ds-4
ii ucf 3.0053
ii xdg-utils 1.2.1-2
Versions of packages texlive-base recommends:
ii lmodern 2.005-1
Versions of packages texlive-base suggests:
ii atril [postscript-viewer] 1.28.2-1
ii evince [postscript-viewer] 49~alpha-2
ii ghostscript [postscript-viewer] 10.07.1~dfsg-1
ii gv [postscript-viewer] 1:3.7.4-3.2
ii mupdf [pdf-viewer] 1.27.0+ds1-6
ii perl-tk 1:804.036+dfsg1-6
ii qpdfview [pdf-viewer] 0.5.0+ds-5+b1
ii qpdfview-ps-plugin [postscript-viewer] 0.5.0+ds-5+b1
ii xpdf [pdf-viewer] 3.04+git20260220-1
pn xzdec <none>
ii zathura-pdf-poppler [pdf-viewer] 2026.02.03-1
Versions of packages texlive-binaries depends on:
ii libc6 2.42-16
ii libcairo2 1.18.4-3
ii libfontconfig1 2.17.1-5
ii libfreetype6 2.14.3+dfsg-1
ii libgcc-s1 16.1.0-1
ii libgraphite2-3 1.3.14-13
ii libharfbuzz-subset0 12.3.2-2+b2
ii libharfbuzz0b 12.3.2-2+b2
ii libicu78 78.3-2
ii libkpathsea6 2026.20260303.78225+ds-4
ii libmpfi0 1.5.4+ds-5
ii libmpfr6 4.2.2-3
ii libpaper2 2.2.5-0.4
ii libpixman-1-0 0.46.4-1
ii libpng16-16t64 1.6.58-1
ii libpotrace0 1.16-2+b2
ii libptexenc1 2026.20260303.78225+ds-4
ii libstdc++6 16.1.0-1
ii libsynctex2 2026.20260303.78225+ds-4
ii libteckit0 2.5.13+ds-1+b1
ii libtexlua53-5 2026.20260303.78225+ds-4
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.12-1
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.16-1
ii libxi6 2:1.8.2-2
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.3-4
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.19-1
ii libxt6t64 1:1.2.1-1.3+b1
ii libzzip-0-13t64 0.13.78+dfsg.1-0.2
ii perl 5.40.1-7+b1
ii t1utils 1.41-4
ii zlib1g 1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.2-3
Versions of packages texlive-binaries recommends:
ii dvisvgm 3.6+ds-1
ii texlive-base 2025.20260124-1
Versions of packages texlive-binaries suggests:
pn hintview <none>
pn texlive-binaries-sse2 <none>
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