dapper tetex: hyphenation broken?

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> Hi all;

> 

> trying to get over some strange error building a larger LaTeX document

> after migrating from Debian sid to Dapper Drake, I now see that, same

> with this as with every new document I create, hyphenation doesn't

> seem to work using Dappers tetex environment. Here's what I found out

> about it, so far:

> 

> * Trying to build the package gives me a message like this:

> 

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> latex> Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for

> latex> (babel) the language `ngerman'

> latex> (babel) I will use the patterns loaded for

> \language=0 instead.

> latex>

> - --snip--

> 

> most locale-specific stuff (umlauts et al) works, but hyphenation

> doesn't, just gives me a bunch full of "Overful \hbox" messages.

> 

> 

> 

> * Tracking down the error, I found

> /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat to be responsible for

> LaTeX language configuration, which is merely empty (besides a bunch

> of comments) and, at the end, contains those lines:

> 

> - --snip--

> %%

> %%% /etc/texmf/language.d/10tetex.cnf not included because the

> %%% corresponding package seems to be removed.

> %%

> - --snip--

> 

> 

> This is strange, because at least /etc/texmf/language.d/10tetex.cnf

> exists.

> 

> 

> 

> * Having a look at /usr/sbin/update-languages (which seems to be

> responsible for building language.dat), I found that the files in

> /etc/texmf/languages are only included if the package name is found in

> /var/lib/tex-common/language-cnf/tetex-base.list - 10tetex isn't

> within there per default, so the file is not included (why?).

> 

> 

> * Anyhow, after 'cat'ing 10tetex.cnf to the end of language.dat,

> hyphenation is still broken. Ther are no other tetex- or latex-

> packages I might be missing or want to install, and as far as I looked

> through the documentation of the ngerman package, the files required

> for that are all in place in Dapper.

> 

> What's goin' wrong? Am I just too stupid? Did I find a bug? Is my

> installation broken?

> Can anyone enlighten me about that?

> 

> TIA and bye,

> Kris

> 

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I confirm the problem with hyphenation in Dapper's tetex. I have a
brand new Flight 5 ISO installation. I'm using English US.



Should we file a bug report for this?



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