Bug#659680: texlive-xetex: xelatex error: ``(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)"
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 01:09:27PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Assigning to zlib, maintainers of zlib, what is your plan here?
> Should we patch xetex (and probably many other packages have to be
> fixed, too), or do you intend to fix this misbehaviour?
I've no intention to diverge from upstream on this, maintaining a
different interface to upstream doesn't seem like a smart move. Given
that the TeX upstream appears to have already changed their code for the
new zlib upstream it seems like they're not expecting any change in zlib
and will be updated to use the new interface with their next release.
I can add a Breaks to the package to help handle partial upgrade cases.
A brief look at what's installed on my particular system suggests that
this isn't a terribly widely used function, I'm actually only seeing
users from TeX but that's not exactly a full archive scan.
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