Re: Possible freeze exception for texlive-bin

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Dear release managers ...

any comment (slightly edited the text, as I will remove the
big dep5 file before upload in case that makes it easier!)

??

Thanks

On Mi, 18 Jul 2012, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Dear release managers,
> 
> before uploading to unstable I would concur with you about
> possible freeze exception for texlive-bin. 
> 
> The changes in the release I would like to upload are two-fold:
> 
> * documentation/format/lintian warning fixes
>   . some superficial white-space in control file removed
>   . better descriptions in the control file
> 
> * code change for ptex
>   recently a bug in ptex (Japanese Publishing TeX) was reported in the
>   Japanese TeX forum and immediately afterwards fixed in the
>   TeX Live upstream svn repository.
> 
>   The code change is minimal:
>   --- texlive-bin-2012.20120628.orig/texk/web2c/ptexdir/ptex-base.ch     2012-05-12 21:40:41.000000000 +0900
>   +++ texlive-bin-2012.20120628/texk/web2c/ptexdir/ptex-base.ch  2012-07-18 02:19:29.125987453 +0900
>   @@ -2149,7 +2149,7 @@
>    else if cur_tok<cs_token_flag+single_base then
>      cur_val:=cur_tok-cs_token_flag-active_base
>    else cur_val:=cur_tok-cs_token_flag-single_base;
>   -if (cur_val>255)and(cur_cmd<kanji) then
>   +if (cur_val>255)and((cur_cmd<kanji)or(cur_cmd>max_char_code)) then
>      begin print_err("Improper alphabetic or KANJI constant");
>    @.Improper alphabetic constant@>
>      help2("A one-character control sequence belongs after a ` mark.")@/
> 
>   and the test case is easy to check. The following TeX code:
> \newcount\foo
> \foo`\A
> \showthe\foo % 65
> \foo`\AA % !?
> \showthe\foo
> \bye
> 
>   should break, as it doe sin etex:
>   ...
>   ?
>   ! Improper alphabetic constant.
>   
>                      \AA
>   l.4 \foo`\AA
>                % !?
> 
> 
>   while in ptex the \AA is accepted:
>   (./test.tex
>   > 65.
>   l.3 \showthe\foo
>                    % 65
>   ?
>   > 452.
>   l.5 \showthe\foo
>   
>   ?
>    )
>   No pages of output.
> 
> 
> I don't consider any of these *essential* for the stable release,
> so I wanted to ask before doing an upload to unstable that might 
> generate problems later.
> 
> So please let me know what you think, if this is ok for stable
> or I should wait and leave it like it is for now!
> 
> Thanks a lot and all the best
> 
> Norbert

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Norbert Preining            preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
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