Re: Your package axiom-tex might be broken by recent changes in teTeX
Greetings, and thanks for your note! axiom-tex is fine -- it only
contains a style file. Perhaps their is a better dependency
structure.
Take care,
Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> writes:
> This is my third attempt to reach all developers whose packages
> depend, or build-depend, on tetex-bin. I have been notified that not
> everybody might know which of his packages in fact depends on
> tetex-bin, and that I should include the package name in the subject.
>
> So here it comes; this is about your Package:
>
> axiom-tex
>
>
> During the development of teTeX in the last months we introduced a
> couple of important changes. We did not foresee that this could cause
> problems with packages depending on tetex-bin, but unfortunately it
> did.
>
> Therefore we suspect that there might be also other packages that have
> similar problems which have been so far been undetected, and we ask all
> maintainers to test their packages against the current tetex packages:
>
> - Do they still build?
> - Can they still be installed?
> - Do they still work?
>
> Possible causes of failure are:
>
> - Some packages create formats during building or installation, and have
> format names hardcoded in them. Because of a switch from TeX to e-TeX,
> the format names have changed from *.fmt to *.efmt in many cases
>
> - There might be (font) packages that call /usr/bin/updmap with the
> option "--outputdir". Since the location of the generated map files
> has been changed, this will fail to change the actual configuration.
>
> - Furthermore, some files had to be removed from tetex-base because of
> license problems.
>
> There might be other changes, but those are the ones we have encountered
> so far.
>
> Please send answers to debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org, not to me
> personally.
>
>
> Many apologies for this inconvenience,
> Frank
>
>
>
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