2017-06-21 19:14 GMT+02:00 Lukas Fleischer <[email protected]>: > Hi Remy, > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 at 08:24:23, Rémy Oudompheng via arch-dev-public wrote: >> TexLive 2017 has been released at the beginning of the month and is >> now packaged in [testing]. >> No particular issue is expected when upgrading to this release. >> >> Note that a few packages disappear in this release, following upstream >> changes in structure: >> * texlive-genericextra (merged in texlive-core) >> * texlive-htmlxml (merged in texlive-core and formatsextra) >> * texlive-plainextra (merged in texlive-core) > > I noticed one minor issue. The dblatex package still depends on > texlive-htmlxml which currently prevents dblatex users from upgrading > TeXLive. There are also some packages with makedepends on the obsolete > packages mentioned above. > > The two obvious options are: > > * Make the replacements of texlive-genericextra, texlive-htmlxml and > texlive-plainextra provide the obsolete packages. > > * Update the dependencies of all affected packages and make sure we move > them from [testing] together with TeXLive 2017. > > Of course, a combination of both approaches is possible as well. What do > you suggest?
Texlive-core already provides genericextra and plainextra. Formatsextra conflicts with htmlxml but does not provide it (htmlxml is split between core and formatsextra). I could say that formatsextra provides texlive-html, since it depends on core anyway, so installing it is enough. Let me do that. Regards, Rémy.
