Package: texlive-base, texlive-binaries
Version: 2018.20190227-2, 2018.20181218.49446-1
Paper size to letter:
$ tl-paper
Current dvipdfmx paper size (from
/var/lib/texmf/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx-paper.cfg): letter
Current dvips paper size (from
/var/lib/texmf/dvips/config/config-paper.ps): letter
Current pdftex paper size (from
/var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex): letter
Current xdvi paper size (from /var/lib/texmf/xdvi/XDvi-paper): letter
But produced pdf files still come out as a4:
$ pdflatex test
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (TeX Live
2019/dev/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2018-12-01>
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/letter.cls
Document Class: letter 2014/09/29 v1.2z Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size12.clo)) (./test.aux)
[1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] [2] [3]
(./test.aux) )
(see the transcript file for additional
information)</usr/share/texlive/texmf-d
ist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmbx12.pfb></usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fo
nts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr12.pfb>
Output written on test.pdf (3 pages, 33961 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.
$ pdfinfo test.pdf
Creator: TeX
Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.19
CreationDate: Sat Feb 15 12:23:17 2020 EST
ModDate: Sat Feb 15 12:23:17 2020 EST
Tagged: no
UserProperties: no
Suspects: no
Form: none
JavaScript: no
Pages: 3
Encrypted: no
Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4)
Page rot: 0
File size: 33961 bytes
Optimized: no
PDF version: 1.5
This has apparently been fixed in unstable but not in stable or testing.
