Bug#322387: Question for DD: TeX live upload to unstable?
From: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Question for DD: TeX live upload to unstable? Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:49:17 +0100 Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect only very basic part of TeXlive will be sufficient for pTeX but not sure yet. I will investigate, too, and see if we can get a decent cooperation. I assume that we will get problems with ptex. I never tested to use it, knowing nothing about it, but I know that ptex-bin fails to build from source with teTeX-3.0, see #322387. I saw #322387 and found that ptex-bin package was obsolete. An upstream of pTeX already released ptex-src-3.1.9 which supported teTeX-3.0 (the current ptex-bin was based on ptex-src-3.1.5). So I assume that ptex will have no problem with teTeX-3.0 but I'm not sure if it has a problem with texlive or not. Regards, 2006-2-20(Mon) -- Debian Developer Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
Bug#322387: Question for DD: TeX live upload to unstable?
Atsuhito Kohda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume that we will get problems with ptex. I never tested to use it, knowing nothing about it, but I know that ptex-bin fails to build from source with teTeX-3.0, see #322387. I saw #322387 and found that ptex-bin package was obsolete. An upstream of pTeX already released ptex-src-3.1.9 which supported teTeX-3.0 (the current ptex-bin was based on ptex-src-3.1.5). So I assume that ptex will have no problem with teTeX-3.0 but I'm not sure if it has a problem with texlive or not. Maybe no problems, but still some work. Someone first needs to update ptex-buildsupport (which is a stripped-down version of the tetex-bin sources, installable as a binary package). And then someone needs to take over ptex-bin - at least IMHO a major new upstream version is nothing for an NMU, and it doesn't seem as if the maintainer still had any interest in the package. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
