Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: texlive-bin (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1220653
Title:
mpost binary is broken
Status in “texlive-bin” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
The Metapost binary distributed on the TeXlive2013 CDROM is broken; an
upgrade using tlmgr will fix it.
The brokenness exhibits itself in both i386 as well as amd64 binaries:
one result is that the fonts generated when building LilyPond are
broken, showing (among other important broken glyphs) a severely ugly
treble clef.
This has been reported on <URL:https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html
/lilypond-devel/2013-09/msg00000.html> as well as
<URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-
lilypond/2013-09/msg00011.html> (the report starts for current Fedora
which is also afflicted but the discussion evolves around the TeXlive
source of the problem).
I have checked that the Debian packages for either wheezy or sid are clean
(at least for i386): those packages would be
/home/dak/Downloads/texlive-binaries_2012.20120628-4_i386.deb
/home/dak/Downloads/texlive-binaries_2013.20130729.30972-1_i386.deb
In contrast, the current Saucy package is broken. It is
/var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-binaries_2013.20130529.30792-1build2_i386.deb
It would seem that upgrading to current sid would likely do the trick
though it is unclear exactly what caused the problem (apparently it
was presumed to have been fixed in TeXlive by recompiling with a
version of GCC newer than 4.5.4, but that would not seem to match the
circumstances under which the problem appears here).
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