253990 2009-01-06 16:22 0000 dev-tex/latex2html-2008 stable request (was: 2002 includes ancient url.sty that breaks LaTeX packages relying on the newer one included in texlive) 2009-01-30 22:47:12 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Unspecified unspecified All Linux RESOLVED FIXED STABLEREQ P2 normal --- 1 mike@thegrateful.org tex@gentoo.org mike@thegrateful.org 2009-01-06 16:22:40 0000 I have been trying to get biblatex (which requires url.sty) to work and had little success because /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/html/url.sty from dev-tex/latex2html was being used instead of /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ltxmisc/url.sty from texlive. The version from texlive is 3.3 (2006), whereas the version from latex2html is 1.4 (1999). Deleting latex2html's /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ltxmisc/url.sty solved the problem. Perhaps we can remove url.sty from the latex2html package since texlive already has url.sty? For the sake of the googlers, here is the actual error message latex failed with: ! Undefined control sequence. \biburlsetup ->\Urlmuskip =0mu plus 2mu\relax \mathchardef \UrlBreakPenalty ... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install biblatex on a system where latex2html is installed. 2. Run latex on a file that uses biblatex. 3. Read error message... aballier@gentoo.org 2009-01-08 21:23:20 0000 which latex2html version? mike@thegrateful.org 2009-01-08 21:35:37 0000 (In reply to comment #1) > which latex2html version? > <sigh> This is slightly embarrassing. Upgrading to the keyworded 2008 version works just fine. I had, of course, been using the 2002 version of latex2html and hadn't even thought to check for a newer version. Sorry to waste your time, but thanks for the help! I appreciate the work you do. (Not sure whether I should mark this "fixed" or "invalid," so I'll leave that one to the experts :)(In reply to comment #0) > I have been trying to get biblatex (which requires url.sty) to work and had > little success because /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/html/url.sty from > dev-tex/latex2html was being used instead of > /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ltxmisc/url.sty from texlive. The version from > texlive is 3.3 (2006), whereas the version from latex2html is 1.4 (1999). > Deleting latex2html's /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ltxmisc/url.sty solved > the problem. > > Perhaps we can remove url.sty from the latex2html package since texlive already > has url.sty? > > For the sake of the googlers, here is the actual error message latex failed > with: > ! Undefined control sequence. > \biburlsetup ->\Urlmuskip > =0mu plus 2mu\relax \mathchardef \UrlBreakPenalty ... > > Reproducible: Always > > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. Install biblatex on a system where latex2html is installed. > 2. Run latex on a file that uses biblatex. > 3. Read error message... > aballier@gentoo.org 2009-01-08 21:39:35 0000 (In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > which latex2html version? > > > > <sigh> This is slightly embarrassing. Upgrading to the keyworded 2008 version > works just fine. I had, of course, been using the 2002 version of latex2html > and hadn't even thought to check for a newer version. heh, I was pretty sure I had fixed this some time ago :) anyway, that's a good reason to request 2008 to go stable so that'll prevent others from suffering from this bug fmccor@gentoo.org 2009-01-09 12:41:28 0000 Sparc stable. josejx@gentoo.org 2009-01-09 18:15:48 0000 Marked ppc/ppc64 stable. klausman@gentoo.org 2009-01-10 14:02:22 0000 Stable on alpha. maekke@gentoo.org 2009-01-10 16:20:56 0000 amd64/x86 stable armin76@gentoo.org 2009-01-23 11:30:56 0000 arm/ia64/s390/sh stable jer@gentoo.org 2009-01-30 22:47:12 0000 Stable for HPPA and closing.