Bug#529570: context: Context MkIV does not work with current luatex version

[Matthijs Kooijman <m.kooijman@student.utwente.nl>]

Package: context
Version: 2008.05.21-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

even though MkIV is strictly not supported and this might not be a context bug
per se, I would like to at least document this behaviour here.

Since I've upgraded luatex from 0.35 to 0.40, Context MkIV no longer works for
me. When I run 

           luatools --ini --compile cont-en

to recompile the context files (since just running context complains about
out-of-date cache), I get the following messages, in between some other
output:

  LuaTools | running command: luatex --ini --lua="cont-en.luc"
    "/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex" \\dump
    (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex
      (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.tex SORRY CONTEXT NOW NEEDS ETEX)
    )

Since the complaint about out-of-date doesn't disappear, I assume the above
messages is actually a fatal error of sorts.

This issue is also discussed at [1], where it is suggested to upgrade context
to the latest beta. Perhaps for now, context should conflict with luatex >=
0.38, so people won't accidentally upgrade it until this issue is resolved?

I also tried upgrading to 2008.10.31-1 from experimental, but that didn't
help.

Gr.

Matthijs

[1]: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2009/040339.html




-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.6 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages context depends on:
ii  lmodern                    1.010x-5      scalable PostScript and OpenType f
ii  ruby                       4.2           An interpreter of object-oriented 
ii  tex-common                 1.18          common infrastructure for building
ii  texlive-base               2007.dfsg.2-4 TeX Live: Essential programs and f
ii  texlive-base-bin           2007.dfsg.2-6 TeX Live: Essential binaries
ii  texlive-metapost           2007.dfsg.2-6 TeX Live: MetaPost (and Metafont) 

Versions of packages context recommends:
ii  luatex                        0.40.0-1   next generation TeX engine

Versions of packages context suggests:
pn  context-doc-nonfree          <none>      (no description available)
pn  context-nonfree              <none>      (no description available)
pn  fontforge                    <none>      (no description available)
ii  libxml-parser-perl           2.36-1.1+b1 Perl module for parsing XML files
pn  perl-tk                      <none>      (no description available)

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