Re: Important note for maintainers of packages depending on tetex-bin
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:51:09PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> First of all, please apoligize if you receive this mail several times,
> the list in the Cc: was generated automatically, and when I first tried
> the list was moved into the message body instead of the Cc.
>
> 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.
>
> There might be other changes, but those are the ones we have encountered
> so far.
>
> Please remember to obey the Mail-followup-to and Reply-to fields, and
> not send answers to everybody (161 recipients!). Also, if you want to
> flame us because of the way we introduced those changes, please do this
> under a different subjects.
Well, it would be really nice if you sent these mails one by one to each
individual maintainer/package, and list the packages which are concerned in
the body of the mailing list. There should be only little tweaking needed to
your existing scripts to achieve this.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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