xelatex is broken, because xelatex.fmt is missing

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Ricardo Wurmus wrote on 19 Jul 2023 13:45
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87y1jccebw.fsf@elephly.net
Since the merge of the tex-team-next branch earlier this week xelatex is
broken. I tried installing different collection packages, but I cannot
find any package providing the xelatex.fmt file.

This also affects packages like python-nbconvert, which now has a
failing test suite as it can no longer build PDFs with xelatex.

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Ricardo
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Nicolas Goaziou wrote on 19 Jul 2023 20:34
(name . Ricardo Wurmus)(address . rekado@elephly.net)(address . 64729-done@debbugs.gnu.org)
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Hello,

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

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> Since the merge of the tex-team-next branch earlier this week xelatex is
> broken.

For the record, I can compile some simple documents with it, such as the
following "test.tex" file

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{DejaVu Sans}
\title{Sample font document}
\author{Overleaf}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
This is an \textit{example} of a document compiled
with \textbf{XeLaTeX}. LuaLaTeX should also work too.

\end{document}

with the command

guix shell --pure texlive-collection-basic texlive-fontspec texlive-xetex \
font-dejavu -- xelatex test.tex

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> I tried installing different collection packages, but I cannot
> find any package providing the xelatex.fmt file.

This format file is provided by `texlive-xetex' package (and
consequently texlive-collection-xetex).

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> This also affects packages like python-nbconvert, which now has a
> failing test suite as it can no longer build PDFs with xelatex.

I added a couple of packages to python-nbconvert's inputs, including
texlive-xetex. It fixed the build.

What surprises me however, is that one of these packages, namely
texlive-pdfcol, had to be packaged in Guix in the process. Was
python-nbconvert even building before the tex-team-next merge?

Thanks for the report! Closing.

Regards,
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Nicolas Goaziou
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