texlive new planned upload to experimental
Hi Jörg!
After the first try to submit the texlive packages and the rejection a
long discussion on debian-devel developed [1] [2]. I have prepared a
new set of packages and plan to upload them to experimental via my
sponsor. But before doing this (it is a big package to move around) I
would like to ask wether you see any a-priori problems with the changes
I made, or with changes I didn't made but you wanted to have. So here
is a short description of the changes. If you have any comments please
let me know, that I can incorporate them.
1) packages names and source packages
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The packages have been renamed according to standards used in Debian, as
discussed in the above mentioned thread. Furthermore, there are now only
five source packages (texlive-bin for arch=any, and texlive-doc,
texlive-lang, texlive-base, texlive-extra) grouped after importance and
arch.
2) removed and new packages, reuse of stuff already in Debian
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Sevaral packages have been removed (texlive-ps-utils, texlive-ttf-utils,
texlive-graphics-tools, texlive-lang-arab, texlive-htmlxml) as they are
either not directly related to TeX (former three) and/or are present in
Debian (later two). Bugs and patches have been filed and send to those
packages in need of upgrade (arabtex is already updated, tipa expects
an NMU).
Some TeX packages are not included in the source and binary debian packages,
as they are in Debian and need only some fixes (prosper, texpower,
tpslifonts, tipa, lcdf-typetools). These packages have been repackaged
(only changed control file) and put on the tug server [3] for interim use.
A new packages texlive has been created which pulls in all texlive
packages plus those which are already in Debian and not build from
texlive sources, to get a complete system mirroring an installation
of TeX live from the original DVD.
More packages are in the process of being singled out respectivly updated
in the Debian repository, to reduce duplication.
3) interaction with tetex and other packages
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The dependencies of some of the texlive packages have been modified that
they can be used with tetex3 (in unstable). This will bring many of the
fonts and style files up to now not available for teTeX on Debian into
easy reach.
Packages depending only on teTeX but working with texlive have been
repackaged (only control file edited) and put onto the tug server [3] to be
used with the texlive packages. As soon as texlive enters Debian, I will
file bugs to the respective packages.
4) Removal of problematic material
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At the request of the author, XyMTeX will be removed from next
years TeX live. It has been already removed from the debian packages
of this year, both from .orig.tar.gz and from the binary deb.
Furthermore, ppower has also been removed as it contains a jar file
without sources. There is an ITP [4] and I hope the maintainer can get
the java sources and build a proper Debian package.
References
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[1] Start of the thread
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg01649.html
[2] Continuation next month
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/12/msg00000.html
[3] tug webserver with updated packages
deb(-src) http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ updpkg/
[4] ITP ppower4
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/12/msg00052.html
Best wishes
Norbert
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