Bug#443332: context: New upstream version 2007.09.10
scripsit Frank Küster:
> Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@kinias.org> wrote:
>
> > Package: context
> > Version: 2007.04.17-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > There have been several upstream releases since 2007.04.17 (half a dozen
> > or so), including various important bugfixes (like the ConTeXt font
> > stuff broken since January) and the release of the Mark IV engine in
> > 2007.08.07.
>
> We're kind of low on personel these months...
It's not August any more... ;)
But I understand. We're starting the academic year here and I'm low on
time myself...
> The font stuff sounds indeed like something to be fixed (although
> nobody seems to have reported it to the Debian BTS, AFAIR).
Done: #443515.
> With Mark IV we should be a bit careful: Unless luatex is in testing,
> context should work without it, and I'm not sure which function Mark
> IV has at the moment.
I'm using the latest ConTeXt locally here right now. Current LuaTeX is
totally FUBAR and so Mk IV is (for me) unusable. However, the default
engine is still Mk II (with pdftex or xetex) so upgrading at this point
has no drawback. Ideally, we would have frozen the ConTeXt version in
testing to something from back in January before the font mess entered
upstream... but since we didn't, it would be nice to get a little bit
of the functionality back.
I don't see a reason to delay the update out of caution, since the
experimental Mk IV stuff is not the default. Now, having _time_ to do
it is of course a different story... ;)
> P.S. Funny name. My tent is called Mark III...
I assume it comes from the slightly archaic Anglo-American terminology
for denoting models of military equipment -- 40mm grenade launcher Mk
19, Cruiser Tank Mk III, etc. But why upstream (Dutch, I believe)
picked it is anybody's guess...
--
Thanasis Kinias
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, and
Instructor, Professional Enhancement Programs
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
.
Je ne viens d'aucun pays, d'aucune cité, d'aucune tribu. Je suis fils de la
route, ma patrie est caravane, et ma vie la plus inattendue des traversées.
-- Amin Maalouf, _Léon l'Africain_
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