TL 2011 packaging

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi everyone,

since I want to see TL2011 soon in Debian, here are some ideas
on how to rework the packaging completely, and allowing easier
update to newer versions/intermediate releases.

Please commnet, esp on the proposed reshuffling of files in
texmf and texmf-texlive.

New way of building Debian packages for TeX Live:
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New starting point is a tlnet archive, ie the .tar.xz.

source package layout:
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texlive-base-2011.orig.tar.gz contains
	texlive-base-2011/archive/*.tar.xz
	texlive-base-2011/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
	texlive-base-2011/tlpkg/TeXLive/*
for each included package. So a slice of the tlnet dir with all
packages not included removed.

texlive-base-2011.debian.tar.gz contains
  	texlive-base-2011/additional-files-$binpackage.tar
for files we have to move/add or do anything else
	texlive-base-2011/debian/*


Building source package will only need the following information:
- blacklisted packages
- additional depends/recommends/...
- docsplitting
- other debian related things like maintainer, version, ...
these will be collected in tpm2deb-source.pl


binary package building:
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- unxz/tar all the archive/*.tar.xz, taking care for the RELOC packages,
  into debian/$package/usr/share/texmf-texlive/
  and debian/$package/usr/share/texmf/
  ATTENTION!!! This will be a change because we will identify
  	texmf-dist (TeX Live proper)  ---> /u/s/texmf-texlive (Debian)
	texmf      (TeX Live proper)  ---> /u/s/texmf (Debian)
  Currently we are mapping everything into texmf-texlive and only
  a few files into /u/s/texmf. But since I don't expect any other
  TeX distribution to come up for now I would like to keep it easy
  and simple, with the same layout.

- unxz/tar the additional-files-$binpackage.tar if present into
  debian/$package/

- apply the file move and remove etc directives from the tpm2deb-bin.cfg
  (former tpm2deb.cfg) file by physically moving the files around.

- move the doc files (do not use the above for that) to the appropriate
  place (doc splitting or independent package)

- move info files to appropriate places

- generate license information from texlive.tlpdb, fix man pages etc etc

- run dh_ scripts

The tpm2deb-bin.cfg would contain only
	blacklist;file;		(or equivalent)
	mapping;		(or equivalent)
what remains in the current situation is 
- special;.*/([^/]*\.info);install-info;
	see above, special rules or tpm2deb-bin action

NOT NEEDED ANYMORE, done via trigger

- luatex special cases to build format dumps
  execute;texlive-base;AddFormat name=luatex engine=luatex patterns=language.def options="luatex.ini" 
  execute;texlive-base;AddFormat name=dviluatex engine=luatex patterns=language.def options="dviluatex.ini"

No idea if that is needed?!?!

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source package
- build-orig-tar
	reads config files
	reads texlive.tlpdb
	generates the list to be included
	copies the .tar.xz (including .doc and .source) (taking blacklists etc
	  into account)
- make-deb-source
	reads config files
	reads texlive.tlpdb
	generates the list to be included packages
	generates debian/control file from it
	generates additional-files-$binpackage.tar if necessary


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Please comment.

Best wishes

Norbert
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Norbert Preining            preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
JAIST, Japan                                 TeX Live & Debian Developer
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