Re: texlive 2009 - should set TEXMFCNF?

2009-11-23 Thread Jindrich Novy
Hi Jonathan,

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:30:44PM +, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
 2009/10/30 Jindrich Novy jn...@redhat.com:
  I'm presenting a complete list of packages shipped in TeX Live to
  discuss another possible obsoletions:
 
  dvipdfm
  dvipdfmx
 
 I think the latest TeXLive doesn't include dvipdfm as its
 functionality is now covered by dvipdfmx. Anyway, In both cases I am
 the packager, and would rather see the texlive variant shipped and the
 packages obsoleted.

TeX Live 2009 builds dvipdfm when it is not explicitely disabled. Also
collection-basic depends on both dvipdfm and dvipdfmx. So I decided to
ship them both.

 
 
  xdvi
 Again, would prefer if we obsoleted the separate package and went with
 the texlive variant. Here however we may need to shipp a separate
 package for the japanese patched version. Or we could integrate the
 japanese patch into texlive - this may need some work though, as the
 japanese patch seems to be unmaintined presently. Longer term I hope
 xdvi just goes away, as its functionality increasingly gets added to
 evince - xdvi is only minimally maintained at this point and is
 rather... crusty.
 

I'm not sure about Japanese support here. IIRC Takanori MATSUURA works
on this support for TL2009. At this point I would prefer to propose
this effort to TL upstream so that we needn't to forwardport these
patches too often. I could imagine that Takanori could be official
upstream of the new xdvi package providing Japanese support if TL upstream
is not against it.

 
  dvipng
 
 Yep, we should simply go with the texlive version - I am happy with
 this, as dvipng maintainer.
 
  xdvipdfmx
 
 
 I'm not primary maintainer of this one, but again, I think we should
 go with the texlive shipped version (which is ahead of the version
 available as a separate tarball).
 
 Let me know if you need any help with this.
 
 Cheers,
 Jonathan

At last but not least, all the mentioned packages are obsoleted by
their TeX Live variant for some time already in the Fedora repo.

Cheers,
Jindrich

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Re: texlive 2009 - should set TEXMFCNF?

2009-11-22 Thread Jonathan Underwood
2009/10/30 Jindrich Novy jn...@redhat.com:
 I'm presenting a complete list of packages shipped in TeX Live to
 discuss another possible obsoletions:

 dvipdfm
 dvipdfmx

I think the latest TeXLive doesn't include dvipdfm as its
functionality is now covered by dvipdfmx. Anyway, In both cases I am
the packager, and would rather see the texlive variant shipped and the
packages obsoleted.


 xdvi
Again, would prefer if we obsoleted the separate package and went with
the texlive variant. Here however we may need to shipp a separate
package for the japanese patched version. Or we could integrate the
japanese patch into texlive - this may need some work though, as the
japanese patch seems to be unmaintined presently. Longer term I hope
xdvi just goes away, as its functionality increasingly gets added to
evince - xdvi is only minimally maintained at this point and is
rather... crusty.


 dvipng

Yep, we should simply go with the texlive version - I am happy with
this, as dvipng maintainer.

 xdvipdfmx


I'm not primary maintainer of this one, but again, I think we should
go with the texlive shipped version (which is ahead of the version
available as a separate tarball).

Let me know if you need any help with this.

Cheers,
Jonathan

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Re: texlive 2009 - should set TEXMFCNF?

2009-10-30 Thread Jindrich Novy
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 05:26:25PM +, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
 2009/10/29 Jindrich Novy jn...@redhat.com:
  Currently I'm trying to not to replace any package that has a separate
  upstream and is already packaged separatelly in Fedora.
 
 
 IMO I think we'd be better off adopting the texlive versions of the
 packages, rather than doing a half-and-half job on this by packaging
 individual upstreams. The reason being that Fedora then benefits from
 the integration and testing work done by the texlive team. The texlive
 xdvipdfmx, for example is (I think), ahead of the 0.4 upstream
 release.
 
 J.

Ok, no problem with obsoleting a Fedora package with a TeX Live
variant if you, as a package maintainer of it, wish to. I will add
Obsoletes for xdvipdfmx.

I'm presenting a complete list of packages shipped in TeX Live to
discuss another possible obsoletions:

dvipdfm
dvipdfmx
getafm
lcdftypetools
psutils
t1utils
xdvi
dvipng
xdvipdfmx

If you think that also some of these packages in Fedora should be
obsoleted, please let me know and I will do so in the next TL repo
update.

Thanks,
Jindrich

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Re: texlive 2009 - should set TEXMFCNF?

2009-10-29 Thread Jindrich Novy
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:59:30AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
 Jindrich Novy wrote:
 
  On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 03:05:34PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
  I wonder if texlive should include a /etc/profile.d package to set
  TEXMFCNF,
  so that other packages, such as xdvipdfmx will work?  Or, should texlive
  just obsolete xdvipdfmx and include it's own version?
  
  I will try to fix it in the texmf.cnf kpathsea configuration file
  directly in the new TL2009 update.
  
  Jindrich
  
 Could you explain?

The plan was to update the texmf.cnf to tell kpathsea to look for
files in the /usr/share/texmf tree prior to the main TL2009 tree. This
should make the utilities like xdvipdfmx work even though they are
linked against old kpathsea and expects configuration bits in
/usr/share/texmf.

 Will you replace the current xdvipdfmx?

Currently I'm trying to not to replace any package that has a separate
upstream and is already packaged separatelly in Fedora.

Jindrich

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Re: texlive 2009 - should set TEXMFCNF?

2009-10-29 Thread Neal Becker
Jindrich Novy wrote:

 On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:59:30AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
 Jindrich Novy wrote:
 
  On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 03:05:34PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
  I wonder if texlive should include a /etc/profile.d package to set
  TEXMFCNF,
  so that other packages, such as xdvipdfmx will work?  Or, should
  texlive just obsolete xdvipdfmx and include it's own version?
  
  I will try to fix it in the texmf.cnf kpathsea configuration file
  directly in the new TL2009 update.
  
  Jindrich
  
 Could you explain?
 
 The plan was to update the texmf.cnf to tell kpathsea to look for
 files in the /usr/share/texmf tree prior to the main TL2009 tree. This
 should make the utilities like xdvipdfmx work even though they are
 linked against old kpathsea and expects configuration bits in
 /usr/share/texmf.
 
 Will you replace the current xdvipdfmx?
 
 Currently I'm trying to not to replace any package that has a separate
 upstream and is already packaged separatelly in Fedora.
 
 Jindrich
 
I am maintainer for xdvipdfmx and would be perfectly happy if you adopt it.

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Re: texlive 2009 - should set TEXMFCNF?

2009-10-29 Thread Jonathan Underwood
2009/10/29 Jindrich Novy jn...@redhat.com:
 Currently I'm trying to not to replace any package that has a separate
 upstream and is already packaged separatelly in Fedora.


IMO I think we'd be better off adopting the texlive versions of the
packages, rather than doing a half-and-half job on this by packaging
individual upstreams. The reason being that Fedora then benefits from
the integration and testing work done by the texlive team. The texlive
xdvipdfmx, for example is (I think), ahead of the 0.4 upstream
release.

J.

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Re: texlive 2009 - should set TEXMFCNF?

2009-10-29 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 29 October 2009 17:26:25 Jonathan Underwood wrote:
 IMO I think we'd be better off adopting the texlive versions of the
 packages, rather than doing a half-and-half job on this by packaging
 individual upstreams. The reason being that Fedora then benefits from
 the integration and testing work done by the texlive team. The texlive
 xdvipdfmx, for example is (I think), ahead of the 0.4 upstream
 release.
 
 J.

I am not sure if Jindrich is talking about this but the same could be said 
about the other pure latex packages. If the packages are available on texlive 
they could obsolete the previous versions available on Fedora.

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Re: texlive 2009 - should set TEXMFCNF?

2009-10-29 Thread Jonathan Underwood
2009/10/29 José Matos jama...@fc.up.pt:
 On Thursday 29 October 2009 17:26:25 Jonathan Underwood wrote:
 IMO I think we'd be better off adopting the texlive versions of the
 packages, rather than doing a half-and-half job on this by packaging
 individual upstreams. The reason being that Fedora then benefits from
 the integration and testing work done by the texlive team. The texlive
 xdvipdfmx, for example is (I think), ahead of the 0.4 upstream
 release.

 J.

 I am not sure if Jindrich is talking about this but the same could be said
 about the other pure latex packages. If the packages are available on texlive
 they could obsolete the previous versions available on Fedora.

Agreed.

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Re: texlive 2009 - should set TEXMFCNF?

2009-10-29 Thread Neal Becker
Neal Becker wrote:

 Jindrich Novy wrote:
 
 On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:59:30AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
 Jindrich Novy wrote:
 
  On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 03:05:34PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
  I wonder if texlive should include a /etc/profile.d package to set
  TEXMFCNF,
  so that other packages, such as xdvipdfmx will work?  Or, should
  texlive just obsolete xdvipdfmx and include it's own version?
  
  I will try to fix it in the texmf.cnf kpathsea configuration file
  directly in the new TL2009 update.
  
  Jindrich
  
 Could you explain?
 
 The plan was to update the texmf.cnf to tell kpathsea to look for
 files in the /usr/share/texmf tree prior to the main TL2009 tree. This
 should make the utilities like xdvipdfmx work even though they are
 linked against old kpathsea and expects configuration bits in
 /usr/share/texmf.
 
 Will you replace the current xdvipdfmx?
 
 Currently I'm trying to not to replace any package that has a separate
 upstream and is already packaged separatelly in Fedora.
 
 Jindrich
 
 I am maintainer for xdvipdfmx and would be perfectly happy if you adopt
 it.
 
s/adopt/obsolete

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Re: texlive 2009 - should set TEXMFCNF?

2009-10-27 Thread Jindrich Novy
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 03:05:34PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
 I wonder if texlive should include a /etc/profile.d package to set TEXMFCNF, 
 so that other packages, such as xdvipdfmx will work?  Or, should texlive 
 just obsolete xdvipdfmx and include it's own version?

I will try to fix it in the texmf.cnf kpathsea configuration file
directly in the new TL2009 update.

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Re: texlive 2009 - should set TEXMFCNF?

2009-10-27 Thread Neal Becker
Jindrich Novy wrote:

 On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 03:05:34PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
 I wonder if texlive should include a /etc/profile.d package to set
 TEXMFCNF,
 so that other packages, such as xdvipdfmx will work?  Or, should texlive
 just obsolete xdvipdfmx and include it's own version?
 
 I will try to fix it in the texmf.cnf kpathsea configuration file
 directly in the new TL2009 update.
 
 Jindrich
 
Could you explain?  Will you replace the current xdvipdfmx?  The current 
will use kpathsea and will look for config in /usr/share/texmf.  I was 
thinking either:

1) Replace the current xdvipdfmx with the one shipped with texlive

or

2) Use /etc/profile.d to set TEXMFCNF

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texlive 2009 - should set TEXMFCNF?

2009-10-25 Thread Neal Becker
I wonder if texlive should include a /etc/profile.d package to set TEXMFCNF, 
so that other packages, such as xdvipdfmx will work?  Or, should texlive 
just obsolete xdvipdfmx and include it's own version?

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Re: texlive 2009 - should set TEXMFCNF?

2009-10-25 Thread Jonathan Underwood
2009/10/25 Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com:
 I wonder if texlive should include a /etc/profile.d package to set TEXMFCNF,
 so that other packages, such as xdvipdfmx will work?  Or, should texlive
 just obsolete xdvipdfmx and include it's own version?

IMO the latter.

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