Package: texlive-latex-recommended
Version: 2021.20211217-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

I'm reporting this here because I think /etc/papersize might be a
Debian-ism, but I'd be happy to forward it upstream if needed.

It seems that the xcolor package (and actually the hyperref package from
texlive-latex-base) will force/default the papersize to letter, even
though /etc/papersize is a4.

I've noticed this while building documents with pandoc which uses xcolor
(and hyperref) in its latex template. If papersize is not specified in
the source document or the command line, that means the resulting PDF
will be in the letter format.

It'd be really better if both package, like the rest of the (Debian)
latex stack would respect the /etc/papersize setting.

Thanks for your work in any case!

Regards,