Bug#264043: this issue is not fixed

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 07:14:24PM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
> 
> >   This issue is not yet fixed.
> >
> >   tetex-bin obviously needs a Conflicts with jadetex (<< 3.13-1.1).
> 
> Hmm.  I don't completely understand why.  Wouldn't it be more
> appropriate for jadetex to Depend upon tetex-bin >= 2.0.2-17
> (actually, 2.0.2-16 and possibly something earlier would certainly be
> sufficient)?  Granted, this was a non-compatible change in tetex, but

Obviously.

That's #264926 I sent before removing the "fixed" tag from this bug.

> I think the jadetex configuration scripts could have been written in
> such a way that they would have been resilient to this change.  (My
> patch didn't improve that aspect of the code at all -- I just replaced
> the old hard-coded assumptions with new hard-coded assumptions.)

If the scripts don't work with both versions of tetex-bin, the 
dependencies in both packages have to ensure that under any 
circumstances there are compatible versions of both packages installed.

> >   Are there any other packages that might be affected similarly by
> >   the e-TeX change?
> 
> I suppose any other packages that install TeX formats, particularly
> those that are built on top of LaTeX or anything else that changed
> from tex to etex could care about this.  I'm in a little over my
> depth, so I can't say for sure whether it would really impact those or
> whether other things would also be impacted.  A quick and marginally
> unreliable check shows that only jadetex and xmltex install .ini files
> in /etc/texmf.  arabtex, dvipdfmx, hlatex, thailatex, tipa, and xmltex
> install .cfg files in /etc/texmf.  About 25 packages (give or take)
> install files in /etc/texmf.
> 
> I would have to defer analysis on this to someone else, particularly
> whoever made the choice to go from tex to etex for latex and pdflatex.
> 
> Do you think this bug should still be release critical?

I assume you are joking?

Imagine tetex-bin enters testing without the updated jadetex entering 
testing at the same time...

> Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>

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Adrian

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