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Bug#975505: Please package v3.0.5 or newer



Hi!

Yadd <yadd@debian.org> writes:

> On 28/03/2022 15:06, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 02:47:50PM +0200, Yadd wrote:
>>>> Thank you very much for taking care of this.

Yes, thank you Yadd!  It's much appreciated work.

>>>> But why conflicts/breaks?
>>>> Does it have any file conflicts? I thought there should not be any.
>>>
>>> Yes we can change paths to avoid conflicts.
>> 
>> Aren't the paths different on their own?
>> 
>> In MathJax 2.x, most of the JS files are under one of these three directories:
>> config, extensions, jax. It looks like MathJax 3.x does not have any of them.
>> 
>> I was looking at these lists:
>> 
>> https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/mathjax2/files/
>> https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/mathjax/files/
>> 
>>> Sadly I'm not able to build wicked-good-xpath for now
>>> (mathjax3->speech-rule-engine->wicked-good-xpath): our closure-compiler
>>> looks too old.
>> 
>> It's not just old, it's ancient! The version number is 20130227+dfsg1...
>> 
>> In MathJax v2 I simply disabled that stuff and even excluded it from the
>> tarball:
>> 
>> https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/mathjax/-/commit/4ace348cad6ac57c
>> 
>> Maybe you can do the same? It's an accessibility feature so we can live
>> without it for some time.
>
> Not so easy, sre is called in many places in code

I've pinged #733586 (closure-compiler request for newer version).
Hopefully one of the two maintainers will resume maintenance, but if
not, then it's a salvaging candidate.


Regards,
Nicholas

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