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

[Frank Küster]

"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...

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)