On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 19:09 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mi, 04 Apr 2012, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> > Norbert and all, I'm afraid we should prepare dummy packages
> > to make upgrade smoothly at some point.
> > Is it TeXLive packages that build dummy packages?
> > Of course I'll build dummy package of my packages if necessary.
>
> I have done that already, ptex-bin dummy package is now build from
> texlive-lang-cjk.
I guess the intention is that jmpost and jbibtex-bin simply go away?
(They're also built from ptex-bin, but don't appear to have any reverse
dependencies.)
> > >> texfam is (obsolete) japanese TeX system and it should
> > >> be removed if it failes to be compatible with libkpathse6.
> > >> I'm not sure if texfam could be compatible with libkpathsea6
> > >> or not but I'll contact the maintainer about this issue
> > >> afterwards.
> > >> (BTW texfam might be programmed for libkpathsea3 or 4, IIRC)
> > >
> > > Thanks. Any news on that?
> >
> > Yes, we've already communicated successfully and
> > new beta version is released by the upstream.
> > But please wait. I believe it might take more time.
>
> I have preliminary packages, but they need some fixup, but at
> least they compile on current sources.
We're getting close to texfam being the main blocker for getting rid of
libkpathsea5 from testing and unstable. catdvi has already been NMUed
and there are dvi2{dvi,ps} uploads in the DEFERRED queue.
Removing texfam from testing would still require us using hammers to get
the remaining packages transitioned, due to the libkpathsea5 binaries
still being in unstable. It's tempting to get the old binaries cleaned
up from unstable once the NMUs hit in order to ease the transition -
this would make texfam uninstallable but if it's obsolete (and likely
being updated soonish) then this presumably isn't a huge issue.
Regards,
Adam
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