[tex-live] texlive-publishers: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bib/acmconf/pubform.bib is ill-formatted

Norman Ramsey nr at eecs.harvard.edu
Sun Jun 24 16:34:45 CEST 2007


Package: texlive-publishers
Version: 2005.dfsg.3-1
Severity: normal


Line 39 of /usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bib/acmconf/pubform.bib 
contains an @ sign that does not begin a proper bibtex entry.
Contrary to popular belief, the % does not introduce a comment into
a bibtex file.  In fact there are no comments in bibtex files -- only
ignored characters between entries.  

This file breaks software that crawls my system looking for all bibtex entries.

The following patch works around the problem:

--- /usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bib/acmconf/pubform.bib~    2000-05-19 04:59:01.000000000 -0400
+++ /usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bib/acmconf/pubform.bib     2007-06-24 10:32:47.000000000 -0400
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 %%   Minus         \-     Point         \.     Solidus       \/
 %%   Colon         \:     Semicolon     \;     Less than     \<
 %%   Equals        \=     Greater than  \>     Question mark \?
-%%   Commercial at \@     Left bracket  \[     Backslash     \\
+%%   Commercial at \<at>  Left bracket  \[     Backslash     \\
 %%   Right bracket \]     Circumflex    \^     Underscore    \_
 %%   Grave accent  \`     Left brace    \{     Vertical bar  \|
 %%   Right brace   \}     Tilde         \~}



-- Package-specific info:
If you report an error when running one of the TeX-related binaries 
(latex, pdftex, metafont,...), or if the bug is related to bad or wrong
output, please include a MINIMAL example input file that produces the
error in your report. Don't forget to also include minimal examples of
other files that are needed, e.g. bibtex databases. Often it also helps
to include the logfile. Please, never send included pictures!

If your example file isn't short or produces more than one page of
output (except when multiple pages are needed to show the problem),
you can probably minimize it further. Instructions on how to do that
can be found at

http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini-en.html (english)

or 

http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini.html (german)

##################################
minimal input file


##################################
other files

######################################
 List of ls-R files

-rw-rw-r-- 1 nr nr 1195 Dec 16  2006 /home/nr/texmf/ls-R
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1192 Jun 24 09:41 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jun 22 12:58 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 May 19 21:43 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 May 19 21:43 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
######################################
 Config files
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 22 12:58 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9300 Jun 22 12:58 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17392 Jun 22 12:58 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10363 Jun 22 12:58 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages texlive-publishers depends on:
ii  texlive-common             2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Base component
ii  texlive-latex-base         2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages

texlive-publishers recommends no packages.

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.5.13     Debian configuration management sy
ii  ucf                           3.001      Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages texlive-publishers is related to:
pn  tetex-base                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  tetex-bin                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  tetex-extra                   <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
  tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
  tex-common/singleuser: false


More information about the tex-live mailing list