[tex-live] Bug#534199: texlive-formats-extra: does not install: 5 year bug

[Norbert Preining]

unmerge  534199
thanks

Hi all,

(thanks Thiemo for being so persistent!)

On Mo, 22 Jun 2009, Thiemo Nagel wrote:
> > 	bash -x fmtutil-sys --byfmt latex > fmtutil.log 2>&1
[...]
> ! LaTeX source files more than 5 years old!.
> l.540 ...aTeX source files more than 5 years old!}
>                                                   
> LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
[...]
> This is a summary of all `warning' messages:
> `pdfetex -ini  -jobname=latex -progname=latex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *latex.ini' possibly failed.


and the same with mllatex

On Di, 23 Jun 2009, Thiemo Nagel wrote:
> ! LaTeX source files more than 5 years old!.
> l.540 ...aTeX source files more than 5 years old!}
>                                                   
> ? 
> ! Emergency stop.
> l.540 ...aTeX source files more than 5 years old!}
>                                                   
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on mllatex.log.
> Error: `pdfetex -ini  -jobname=mllatex -progname=mllatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx -mltex mllatex.ini' failed

Bummer, latex.ini contains a
	\scrollmode
while mllatex.ini only
	\input latex.ltx
which is bad.

Bummer.

Frank, how do we continue with that? THe problem is that some .ini files
contain scrollmode, some not (mllatex, cslatex). 

We either have to patch latex.ltx to change the errmessage to something
else like message, or patch the .ini files to contain scrollmode?

Karl, do you have any suggestions for that? Currently fmtutil still
returns failure for mllatex, cslatex (but not latex and pdflatex itself)
when run with an old TeX. The same will hit us next year ...

Best wishes

Norbert

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