On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 01:36:13PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> ... with ...
>
> rm -rf minimal.pdf testcase.tmp/ ; env
> TEXINPUTS="/path/to/texinfo.tex:$TEXINPUTS" texi2dvi --pdf
> --build-dir=testcase.tmp -o minimal.pdf minimal.texi
>
> ... yields
> | ./minimal.aux:3: Undefined control sequence.
> | <argument> gnutls@unhbox @voidb
> | @x @kern .07em @vbox {@hrule width.3em
> heigh...
> |
> | @xrdef ...f @value ##1{##1}@xdef @safexrefname {#1
> | }}@bgroup @expandafter
> @gd...
> | l.3 ....1ex}@kern .07em t-title}{!!float!!=Figure}
>
> on Debian testing.
>
> I am not sure where the actual problem is:
> * It works on Debian/stable which has texlive 2024.20250309
> * On Debian testing/sid with texlive 2025.20250927 the error above will
> be thrown if texinfo.tex is 2025-03-01.21 or newer (GIT commit
> 798ff967bbf66d94089569f9509c9dc12730462d), versions up to
> 2025-03-01.19 (4aa20a403922191c0ee12e335bff7174f2bdc32a) are fine.
>
> The rest of texinfo is at 7.2 in both cases.
>
> Afaiu the remark "texinfo.tex is updated much more frequently than full
> Texinfo releases are made; please use the latest version." on
> https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ using the latest texinfo.tex with
> texinfo 7.2 should work and is supported, so there is a real bug
> somewhere.
Thanks for the report and to Hilmar for tracking down the change which
led to this lossage. It is almost certainly a bug in my change to
texinfo.tex. I will try and get this fixed.
> This is https://bugs.debian.org/1118328 , I have tried boiling this
> down to a minimal testcase, Hilmar Preuße found out that the error is
> tied to the version of texinfo.tex.
> cu Andreas
> --
> `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are
> so grateful to you.'
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