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 16:31, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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| On 12 October 2017 at 22:32, Johannes Ranke wrote:
| | Am Donnerstag, 12. Oktober 2017, 12:01:14 CEST schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
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| | > 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.
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| | 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.
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| | 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
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| It definitely was involved as "guilty party" once, then got fixed upstream --
| and it may have regressed.
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| Worth trying again though.
I just did, and got two failures with the 'making pdf files' part. Likely bug
in texlive or texinfo -- and possible regression. It really seems to hate a
build directory with a ~ in it. So 3.4.2.20171120 for the upcoming 3.4.3.
Dirk
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