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Bug#975505: Please package v3.0.5 or newer



Hi Dmitry and Xavier!

Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 10:27:43PM -0500, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
>> Dear MathJax maintainers,
>>
>> Debian's MathJax is out of date (2.7.9), and I've noticed that some packages
>> have had to start to resort to bundling a 3.x release.  Please package
>> v3.0.5 or newer.
>
> MathJax v3 is a complete rewrite of MathJax, and it is incompatible with
> MathJax v2 [1].
>
> So MathJax v3 needs to be packaged as a new source and binary package,
> therefore this bug is RFP, not a request for upgrade.
>
> Actually, an RFP was already filed, so I am merging this bug into that.
>

That makes sense if MathJax v2 will remain part of the archive :-)

> I am not going to do it myself because I don't have any nodejs or typescript
> skills (the source code [2] is using them now), but if you or someone else
> who reads this believes they can handle it, please do it.
>

Sounds good!  Likewise, MathJax is too important for me to make it my
first nodejs or typescript package, while also lacking skills for truly
responsible maintenance :-)

Xavier, I noticed that you tagged this bug as pending, but I couldn't
find the package in the archive, or in the NEW queue.  Maybe there is
not-yet-uploaded work somewhere?

Regards,
Nicholas

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