Re: Bug#666067: transition: libkpathsea6
Hi Adam, hi Kohda-san
On Do, 26 Apr 2012, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> I guess the intention is that jmpost and jbibtex-bin simply go away?
> (They're also built from ptex-bin, but don't appear to have any reverse
> dependencies.)
Kohda-san? I am not sure, I would say yes.
> We're getting close to texfam being the main blocker for getting rid of
> libkpathsea5 from testing and unstable. catdvi has already been NMUed
> and there are dvi2{dvi,ps} uploads in the DEFERRED queue.
>
> Removing texfam from testing would still require us using hammers to get
> the remaining packages transitioned, due to the libkpathsea5 binaries
> still being in unstable. It's tempting to get the old binaries cleaned
> up from unstable once the NMUs hit in order to ease the transition -
> this would make texfam uninstallable but if it's obsolete (and likely
> being updated soonish) then this presumably isn't a huge issue.
I am for removing of texfam for now. I am working on porting texfam
to the new kpathsea. I first thought that simply building it wiht
kpathsea from TL2009 would suffice, but it doesn't since in TL2011
onward libkpathsea usage of texmf.cnf has become stacked, i.e. it
reads all the config files, which we heavily use now. But that
makes texfam break on installation and cannot run.
I will try my best to port it to libkpathsea6, but for now I gues
if nobody else takes this job, I guess we have to live with an uninstallable
texfam.
Best wishes
Norbert
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