Re: Bug#531595: Bug#531569: Fixing LaTeX in oldstable
Any chance to get an answer on that so that we can upload fixed
packages?
On Mi, 24 Jun 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Luk, hi Frank,
>
> On Do, 18 Jun 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > On Do, 11 Jun 2009, Frank Küster wrote:
> > > I am right now uploading an again-installable tetex-bin to
> > > oldstable-proposed-updates (I hope that's correct?), and texlive-bin
> > > will follow soon. Both uploads have been built in etch pbuilder chroots,
> > > and have been tested to fix the problem.
> > >
> > > The changes are small, essentially only one patch file is added, and
> > > except for the changelog one file in debian/ is changed, namely the
> > > quilt series file (for tetex-bin) or the dpatch 00list file. The
> > > patch is attached.
> > >
> > >
> > > Do we need to do anything else (besides fixing stable and sid, but that
> > > isn't urgent since the bug won't show up soon)?
> >
> > sid will be fixed soon, but I have uploaded
> > texlive-bin 2007.dfsg.2-4+lenny1
> > to proposed-stable-updates which includes the same fix as tetex and
> > texlive-bin 2005 uploaded by Frank.
>
> One more problem was found: While the generation of latex format was
> fixed by this change in the correct way, the generation of three other
> formats (cslatex/pdfcslatex from texlive-lang-czechslovak, xelatex
> from texlive-xetex, and mllatex from texlive-formats-extra) are also
> broken because they *stop* at the warning message and do not generate
> the format.
>
> The latex.ini file that is loaded when generating the (pdf)latex formats
> contains the line
> \scrollmode
> which makes the engine (pdftex/...) *not* stop at the respective
> message. Unfortunately that line is missing from mllatex.ini,
> cslatex.ini, xelatex.ini.
>
> I have prepared:
> texlive-base 2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2
> texlive-lang 2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1
> texlive-extra 2007.dfsg.17-1~lenny02
> for stable-proposed updates.
>
> The last one would replace the ~lenny01 package that is already in
> stable.
>
> The texlive-lang is the first update for stable.
>
> The question is about the first, texlive-base, where I have already
> uploaded one version (~lenny1) to stable-proposed-updates, but that has
> not been accepted by now.
>
> Should I upload a new ~lenny1 with the additional fixes or should I
> upload ~lenny1 for that package?
>
> All the best
>
> Norbert
>
Best wishes
Norbert
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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Vienna University of Technology
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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