With the latest texlive, debian-refcard fails to build, apparently due to somehow
changed package dependencies or files moved around within the texlive ecosystem.

With the version in Trixie 2024.20250309-1 everything was fine, now with
2025.20250927-4 I have to add "texlive-full" to the Depends in refcard, to make
it build again (see https://salsa.debian.org/holgerw/refcard/-/pipelines/967141.
BTW: The pipeline still fails with reprotest test, but that's another issue
I think).

As can be seen in https://salsa.debian.org/holgerw/refcard/-/jobs/8537781
it complains about missing fonts:
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refcard-es.dbk.tex:777: Font TU/DejaVuSansMono(0)/m/n/7="DejaVu Sans Mono" at 7.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found.
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refcard-es.dbk.tex:777: leading text: .../www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#refcard}
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refcard-es.dbk.tex:777: \textfont 0 is undefined (character h).
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refcard-es.dbk.tex:777: leading text: .../www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#refcard}
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refcard-es.dbk.tex:777: \textfont 0 is undefined (character t).
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refcard-es.dbk.tex:777: leading text: .../www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#refcard}
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refcard-es.dbk.tex:777: \textfont 0 is undefined (character t).
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[...]
refcard-es.dbk.tex:777: \textfont 0 is undefined (character d).
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refcard-es.dbk.tex:777: leading text: .../www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#refcard}
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Unexpected error occured
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Error: xelatex compilation failed
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Have font files been moved around in other texlive packages or similar?
Adding texlive-full to the dependencies makes the fonts available again, but
this adds a huge more of packages to the build pipeline, so it seems a massive
waste of ressources doing this.

I tried to go with just adding texlive-fonts-extra, but that's not enough...
Something is still missing.

Any help how to find out, what's missing or similar would be great.


Holger

Hilmar

02.11.2025 11:09:45 Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>:

Most probably the links in the telxive-fonts-extra package are incorrect
and dangling now.
This happens at times when the actual font files of depending packages
move around in the file system, but linked into the texmf-dist tree.

Best regards

Norbert

I guess you think about
i would not expect that installing texlive-full solves the issue.

02.11.2025 22:06:11 Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>:

Hi,

Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de> wrote (Sun, 2 Nov 2025 23:11:39 +0100 (GMT+01:00)):

I have fixed that for me now by switching from Dejavu to Freefont fonts
in Debian refcard.
So only some fonts are affected, like Dejavu (and maybe others, not sure).

Holger

Debian release-notes also ran into a similar issue, looks it's the same
reason in the underground.
dblatex cannot find its CharisSIL fonts anymore, when running on a trixie
system (was ok on bookworm).

See
https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2026/06/msg00001.html


I fixed/workarounded that by switching from CharisSIL to FreeFont fonts.


Holger