This bug actually shows up on the buildds. It is just hidden by ignoring errors:
| Transcript written on cookbook.log. | pdflatex returned an error, check the log file | scons: *** [debian/tmp3/posix/doc/cookbook/cookbook.pdf] Error 1 https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=python-escript&arch=armel&ver=5.6-9&stamp=1732474360&raw=0 Interestingly, the later binnmu does not contain this file at all. https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=python-escript&arch=s390x&ver=5.6-9%2Bb1&stamp=1732943356&raw=0 Bastian -- Violence in reality is quite different from theory. -- Spock, "The Cloud Minders", stardate 5818.4
