Norbert Preining wrote:
On Sa, 19 Dez 2009, Taco Hoekwater wrote:But what happens then? Luatex becomes dependent on an external library that may or may not be distributed by debian (or anyone else)?No, only that as long as the libraries in texlua are the same as upstream I can reuse the the packages in Debian.
I don't understand this point. The files are statically linked, so how can there be any reuse?
And the advantage for you is that there are less changes if you incorporate new versions of upstream libraries.
But that is certainly true. Here is my opinion on those patches: luafilesystem: that local patch will go away soon (it is possible to slide the new functions in elsewhere, where they are not interfering with the upstream). luasocket: this (hstrerror) patch is good thing to go upstream. luazip: this is not a local patch, I am just using an outdated version. Best wishes, Taco