Description of problem: I was not able to generate PDF from SGML using linuxdoc-tools (see exact error below). I found that the reason is Patch3 (last patch from bug #149588). Looks like it doesn't work anymore with the latest tetex. So what I did is I reverted that patch and applied the one suggested in Debian bug #321998. It works for me, and I have also checked that by default DVI is produced. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -q linuxdoc-tools tetex tetex-latex linuxdoc-tools-0.9.21-6.2.1.1kk tetex-3.0-20.FC5 tetex-latex-3.0-20.FC5 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. wget http://kir.vtx.ru/resume/resume8.sgml 2. linuxdoc -B latex -o pdf resume8.sgml Actual results: Processing file resume8.sgml This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) entering extended mode LaTeX2e <2003/12/01> Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, e stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar, norsk, polis h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, swedish, tur kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded. (./resume8.tex (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))) ! Incomplete \ifnum; all text was ignored after line 5. <inserted text> \fi <*> \nonstopmode\input{resume8.tex} ! Emergency stop. <*> \nonstopmode\input{resume8.tex} No pages of output. Transcript written on resume8.log. Expected results: Generated PDF Additional info: Debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321998 My fixed linuxdoc-tools srpm: http://kir.vtx.ru/lj/linuxdoc-tools-0.9.21-6.2.1.1kk.src.rpm
This bug actually renders linuxdoc-tools unusable, thus raising the severity.
Ughm, looks like nobody is interested in curing linuxdoc? Pity :(
Oops, sorry. Fixed in 0.9.21-8.fc6.
linuxdoc-tools-0.9.21-8.fc6 has been pushed for fc6, which should resolve this issue. If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.