Re: Regression fails with test 1205 "tex glyphs" on opensuse - debian is working / Windows cross build also fails

[John Darrington]

On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 07:55:35AM +0100, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
     Hi,
     
     the regression fails on the opensuse platform with test 1205 „Tex glyphs“ 
on opensuse.
     
     http://caeis.etech.fh-augsburg.de:8010/#/console
     
     The logfile is available here:
     
     http://caeis.etech.fh-augsburg.de:8010/api/v2/logs/4390/raw
     
Yeah, the failure is:

This is TeX, Version 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2017/TeX Live for SUSE Linux) 
(preloaded format=tex)
(./pspp.tex
! Font \xx=wasy10 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.


This is because the wasy10 font is not installed.

This font is unlikely to be required in typical usage - at least not in 
English.   But it might
well be necessary for a user in Iceland.


We could either

1.  Insist that all these fonts are installed (in which case there will be
    a lot of dependencies which are irellevant for most users).

2.  Remove support for these obscure characters - which will upset the minority
    who need them.

3.  Leave the support there, but disable the tests (which means we won't know
    if they work).

I'm not sure which way we should go?

J'