Bug#422387: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#422387: octave2.1-forge: FTBFS: epsf.tex not found, images will be ignored.

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Frank Küster <frank at kuesterei.ch> [2007-05-06 12:42]:

> "Christian T. Steigies" <cts at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:23:09PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> >> Package: octave2.1-forge
> >> Version: 2006.03.17+dfsg1-3
> >> Severity: serious
> >> Justification: FTBFS on i386, very likely to fail everywhere else
> >> User: debian-tex-maint at lists.debian.org
> >> Usertags: builddep-tetex-ftbfs
> >> 
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> During a rebuild of all packages in sid, I discovered that your package
> >> failed to build on i386.
> >
> > I had a similar bug report on one of my packages, changing the build-dep
> > from tetex to texlive, texlive-generic-recommended was all it took to fix
> > this.
> 
> That's true.  However, it would be much better to ask upstream to change
> from epsf.tex to graphicx.sty.  For LaTeX documents, epsf.tex has been
> obsolete for about 13 years...

The culprit is texinfo.tex, which is shipped in the octave* and
octave*-packages and includes epsf.tex.  Even the most recent upstream
version of this file [1] includes epsf.tex.  I think that graphics.sty would
not work with texinfo, because it is TeX rather than LaTeX.

1. http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/texinfo/texinfo/doc/texinfo.tex?rev=1.237&view=auto

-- 
Rafael