[tex-live] hyperref/puenc.def broken after upgrade

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/8/14 Pander <pander at users.sourceforge.net>:
> On 2012-08-14 16:48, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>> Pander <pander at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>
>>> About testing hyperref, the following isn't even working with xelatex:
>>>
>>> \documentclass{article}
>>> \usepackage{hyperref}
>>> \begin{document}
>>> \end{document}
>>>
>>> Perhaps this could be part of some automated testing in TeX Live
>>> whenever anything related to hyperref changes.
>>
>> wouldn't help; i've just (a) updated tl, (b) run your test with xelatex
>> (and pdflatex and plain latex) without any problem.
>
> Here not :(
>
The new version is not available on all mirrors immediately.

> $ date
> Tue Aug 14 17:10:46 CEST 2012
>
> # tlmgr update --all
> tlmgr: package repository
> http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/tex/systems/texlive/tlnet
> tlmgr: saving backups to /usr/local/texlive/2012/tlpkg/backups
> tlmgr: no updates available
>
> $ cat hyperref.tex
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{hyperref}
> \begin{document}
> asdf
> \end{document}
>
> $ xelatex hyperref.tex
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-0.9998 (TeX Live 2012)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./hyperref.tex
> LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
> Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
> nohyphenation, ge
> rman-x-2012-05-30, ngerman-x-2012-05-30, afrikaans, ancientgreek,
> ibycus, arabi
> c, armenian, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian,
> czech, danis
> h, dutch, ukenglish, usenglishmax, esperanto, estonian, ethiopic, farsi,
> finnis
> h, french, friulan, galician, german, ngerman, swissgerman, monogreek,
> greek, h
> ungarian, icelandic, assamese, bengali, gujarati, hindi, kannada,
> malayalam, ma
> rathi, oriya, panjabi, tamil, telugu, indonesian, interlingua, irish,
> italian,
> kurmanji, latin, latvian, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolianlmc, bokmal,
> nynorsk,
>  polish, portuguese, romanian, romansh, russian, sanskrit, serbian,
> serbianc, s
> lovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, turkish, turkmen, ukrainian,
> uppersorbian,
> welsh, loaded.
> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty
> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/hobsub-hyperref.sty
> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/hobsub-generic.sty))
> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/auxhook.sty)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/kvoptions.sty)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/pd1enc.def)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xetexconfig/hyperref.cfg)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/url/url.sty))
>
> Package hyperref Message: Driver (autodetected): hxetex.
>
> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/hxetex.def
> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/puenc.def
>
> ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
>
> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>  ...
>
> l.1591 \DeclareTextCommand[\textBeam}{P
>                                        U}{\9043\223}%* U+2393
> ? x
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on hyperref.log.
>
> What example do you use?
>
> If hyperref is a high risk upgrade, some simple testing would be in
> place. People should be able to expect some quality when using TeX Live.
> I value TeX Live distribution a lot so some extra tests would be very
> welcome to keep on guaranteeing that.
>
> Just start out with a simple test such as the one above and each time a
> problem arises with new packages, just add that particular test. In this
> way, updating is less risky as it apparently is now.
>
>> if we're going to run tests for every package that's updated, there's
>> going to need to be an awful lot more work done on the tl release
>> infrastructure, including writing a test suite per package.
>
> All packages should include their own tests. The tests I refer to are
> for integration testing checking if all packages can coexist peacefully.
>
>> sounds excessive, to me.
>>
>> robin
>>
>



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