Bug#485071: Please provide support for including EPS with XeLaTeX
On Mo, 04 Jan 2010, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> Is there a particular reason why the Debian-specific patch was dropped
> when the package was updated to TL 2009? Is it too much of a burden to
> continue carrying the patch to the Debian tree?
The packages for 2009 are quasi a complete new implementation, some
things got lost, yes, that is life.
On Mo, 04 Jan 2010, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> Well, the patch was not Debian-specific. We just updated the
> xetex.def from upstream (the new 0.93). As TL 2009 contains a more
> recent version we believed it would contain the fix. Unfortunately
> the xetex.def was probably pulled from CTAN *after* the fix was
> removed and *before* it was re-introduced.
Correct.
> I'm not sure, if we should re-introduce the patch. On the one hand
> we'd like to have a bug-free system on the other hand we don't have
Yes we will include a patch to what is currently in TL, and later
when we rebase the packages we can drop it again.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
JAIST, Japan TU Wien, Austria Debian TeX Task Force
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