Bug#1143324: installation-guide: FTBFS: dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess failed with exit status 2

Hi Samuel,

Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote (Mon, 3 Aug 2026 23:39:17 +0200):
> Santiago Vila, le sam. 01 août 2026 22:36:09 +0000, a ecrit:
> > install.fr.profiled.tex:42: The key 'FBsetup/CompactItemize' is unknown and is being ignored
> > install.fr.profiled.tex:42: leading text: \setupbabel{fr}
> 
> The installation-guide-generated text only produces the \setupbabel{fr}
> line. I have attached a minimal reproducer. CompactItemize actually
> comes from dblatex:
> 
> /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/dblatex/style/dbk_locale.sty:
> 
> \babelsetup{fr}{%
>   \ifxetex
>   % \NoAutoSpaceBeforeFDP does not seem to work when used with XeTeX
>   % Take into account the frenchb version in the setup (< v2.5)
>   \AtBeginDocument{\@ifundefined{NoAutoSpacing}{%
>     \shorthandoff{:;!?}}{\NoAutoSpacing}}
>   \fi
>   \NoAutoSpaceBeforeFDP
>   % Avoid mess between enumitem and french redefinition
>   \@ifundefined{ifFrenchItemizeSpacing}{}{\FrenchItemizeSpacingfalse}
>   % The same, for recent frenchb release (v2.3)
>   \@ifundefined{frenchbsetup}{}{\frenchbsetup{CompactItemize=false}}
> }
> 
> Removing CompactItemize=false from there fixes this compilation issue.

While this looks reasonable to me, I wonder why this just now gets an issue,
but there has been no upload to dblatex recently ?
The last change to this file was 2020.

My best guess would be the latest upload of texlive, from the mid of July...

However, I'm unable to provide a detailed analysis, what change in texlive
might have caused this.


BTW: others are affected as well, like debian-refcard (#1143379) or
debian-reference (#1142909). They also fail with building French PDF.


Holger




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