Re: Bug#868558: Would you please not upload new r-* packages until transition is finalised (Re: r-api-3.4)
On 12 October 2017 at 22:32, Johannes Ranke wrote:
| Am Donnerstag, 12. Oktober 2017, 12:01:14 CEST schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
|
| > So we did this 71 times, but stopped 4+ years ago. Not sure what got the
| > toolchain coughing, but I guess we could try again.
|
| texi2dvi used to trip over ~ in path names, so for locally building backports
| we used to rename the directory that the source was extracted to, substituting
| "~" by "-" before building. But I don't know if that was the reason for Dirk
| to change the scheme.
|
| It seems that this was fixed in texi2dvi upstream
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| http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/texinfo/trunk/util/texi2dvi?
| r1=7199&r2=7200
It definitely was involved as "guilty party" once, then got fixed upstream --
and it may have regressed.
Worth trying again though.
Dirk
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