Re: Updating dvipdfmx for TeX Live 2009
Hi all
I agreed the tex maintainers to take over the dvipdfmx since it has
been include in the TL2009 source and I'm too busy to update dvipdfmx
recently. I'm glad to help merge the package to TL2009. Dvipdfmx
package has many Debian special changes, I will try split them to
independent patches.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM, LI Daobing<lidaobing@debian.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 01:38, Norbert Preining<preining@logic.at> wrote:
>> Dear maintainers of dvipdfmx,
>>
>> we are currently working towards packaging TeX Live 2009 for Debian.
>> TL2009 includes the dvipdfmx snapshot 20090522.
>>
>> I tried to compile the current sources of dvipdmfx against libkpathsea5
>> but didn't succeed, there have been some errors for while trying that
>> (e.g., /usr/include/kpathsea/pathsearch.h:105: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'char')
>>
>> Now I want you to ask whether you have already started preparing
>> dvipdfmx 20090522 for Debian, and if not how we should continue here. If
>> you have need I can send you libkpathsea5 and libkpathsea-dev as build
>> from the current TeX Live 2009 sources.
>>
>> Of course there is still the option that we take over dvipdfmx into the
>> texlive binaries as it is already built anyway. In this case we only
>> would need a bit of help from your side figuring out what special
>> patches you did apply to the dvipdfmx source. (Interestingly, the
>> .diff.gz does some patching plus there is the debian/patch/ dir)
>>
>> Please let me know as soon as possible how we can proceed in this
>> direction, because until we have no dvipdfmx we will not be able to make
>> decent testing of xetex, which depends (for xdvipdfmx) on dvipdfmx.
>>
>
> I am not the maintainer of dvipdfmx (I only did several NMU on dvipdfmx).
>
> Yu Guanghui sounds still busy in these months, so If he is out of
> response and you still need help, call me.
>
> thanks.
>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards
> LI Daobing
>
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