Re: Bug#666067: transition: libkpathsea6

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

Hi Norbert,

On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:09:04 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:

> On Mi, 04 Apr 2012, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
>> > Also #666293 (dvi2ps), which I missed before.
>> 
>> I remembered that dvi2ps caused problem when we upgraded
>> to kpathsea5.  
>> It looks the maintainer is not active recently but I found 
>> the upstream has released new version which is based on TL2009.
>> It is not based on TL2012 but it is much better and much easier 
>> to migrate to TL2012 than the current version.
>> Anyway, I'll contact the maintainer.
> 
> Thanks, did you get any response?

Yes, it took almost a week to get response but I got
a response and the maintainer said he would work to fix
the problem in this week.

>> >> I'm not sure if texfam could be compatible with libkpathsea6 
>> >> or not but I'll contact the maintainer about this issue
> 
> I have preliminary packages, but they need some fixup, but at
> least they compile on current sources.

It's very nice.  I think I could NMU fixed catdvi and dvi2dvi
if necessary and urgent so I hope there will be no block soon.

Best regards,	 	     	  2012-4-17(Tue)

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