[Pkg-texlive-maint] TeXlive for Debian - upload of 2005-2 to
unstable
Norbert Preining
preining at logic.at
Tue Apr 18 17:43:08 UTC 2006
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Neil McGovern wrote:
> > Because if you did NOT then I will create new -2 packages with some more
> > fixes and some more usability changes.
Ok, the rest is fixed.
Please if you find time, go and check the files out.
New changelog entries see below.
Thanks a lot and all the best
Norbert
On Son, 19 Mär 2006, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Dear Neil!
>
> (This emails goes Cc to: Jörg Jaspert as ftpmaster who was responsible
> for texlive, and to Marc Brockschmidt as my AM)
>
> The next generation of the texlive packages have gone through the usual
> procedures (clean pbuilder install
> old-upgrade-remove-install-purge-install) and about 1.5 weeks of testing
> on my system. So I would like to ask you to sponsor again the packages.
> I know that it is a big task and a lot of work, so big thanks in
> advance. After discussion on the debian-tetex-maint ML we came to the
> conclusion that an upload to unstable is ok. So this release should go
> into unstable.
>
> The current set of packages fixes more or less all open bugs of the
> texlive packages, the one about texdoc not finding files is left open as
> it needs deeper reorganizing and longer testing.
>
> Some important points from this release:
> - more packages are compatible with tetex (all the texlive-lang-*)
> packages are not compatible (with some exceptions)
> - lmodern has been split out (reducing the size again quite some bit)
> since the lmodern in Debian unstable is back to maintained status and
> cooperates nicely with texlive. Other packages which are never more
> included but instead requested from Debian are dvi2tty, texpower,
> dvipdfmx.
> - The `texlive' package now does not depend on *all* packages of TeX
> live, but only on a small set of recommended ones. Therefore, a new
> package `texlive-full' has been created which pulls in all packages.
> (Sorry to the ftp masters that thus the packages have to go thorugh
> the new queue again). This was done due to several requests (private
> and on ml) that texlive should not actually depend on all packages,
> but provide a decent subset.
>
> The packages are as usual on the tug server, and .dsc and .changes and
> Release files are signed by me.
> deb http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ pool/
> deb-src http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ pool/
>
>
> Thanks a lot and all the best
>
> Norbert
>
>
> Here is the final ChangeLog entry for -2:
>
>
version 2005-2 unstable Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:58:42 +0200
10.04.2006 NP
* fix build_format_if_format_exists check, it was completely hosed
* let texlive-lang-cyrillic conflict with tetex due to /usr/bin/ru*
* Upload to unstable sponsored by Neil McGovern <maulkin at halon.org.uk>
06.04.2006 NP
* blacklist sanskrit.tpm, and recommend latex-sanskrit from
texlive-lang-indic.
03.04.2006 NP
* Remove build-deps on | libxaw8-dev as it goes away with X7.
01.04.2006 NP
* Remove non-free documentation and create a specific package
texlive-doc-nonfree. Currently only three context documents.
* change pdftex's version string to indicate that it uses libpoppler,
taken from the teTeX patch (thanks to Frank and Julian).
23.03.2006 NP
* include the texdoc patch from tetex, which allows following of
symlinks for doc files, and fixes security concerns (Closes: #356390)
* As a consequence of the above patch let tl-extra-utils depend on
mime-support.
* remove tetex-missing-magic-header workaround in test script.
20.03.2006 NP
* add conflict ptex-bin vs texlive-lang-polish as both provide platex.
* add a fix to the tmpfile race in the example feynmf.pl script (thanks
to Kevin B. McCarty.
14.03.2006 NP
* change shell for the reportbug script to bash (Closes: #356391)
>
> 12.03.2006 NP
> * Add lintian override for pdfcrop and thumbpdf executable-not-elf-or-script
> because it is one of the magic header which can be called with sh or perl.
> * Upload to unstable sponsored by Neil McGovern <maulkin at halon.org.uk>
>
> 11.03.2006 NP
> * Blacklist /usr/bin/thumbpdf and /usr/bin/pdfcrop as it is a link to
> texexec, which is in texlive-context, while thumbpdf/pdfcrop is in
> texlive-pdfetex. Remap the thumbpdf and pdfcrop perl files from scripts to
> /usr/bin. (Closes: #352092)
>
> 06.03.2006 NP
> * allow overriding of tpm and package titles and descriptions, improve
> various descriptions (Closes: #354964)
>
> 04.03.2006 NP
> * add all update-* calls to the postinst scripts so that the config file do
> not contain left-overs from tetex at switch time (Closes: #355266)
>
> 02.03.2006 NP
> * Add the temporary directory to TEXFORMATS in fmtutil, to allow
> building formats based on latex.fmt without cluttering stdout
> (patch taken from tetex by Frank KÃŒster, see bug #354604)
>
> 01.03.2006 NP
> * make all texlive-lang-* packages working with tetex3, but add a
> README file explaining the situation for duplicate languages.
> * only recommend dvipdfmx, so we can go for the upload
> * make most depends on other Debian packages a recommends (tipa, texpower,
> etc)
>
> 28.02.2006 NP
> * remap the ibycus4.map TeX/MF input file from the fonts/map location
> to the fonts/source location (upstream cleanup necessary) (Closes: #354652)
> * add packages specific README.Debian files
> * allow various texlive-lang-* packages to work with tetex3
>
> 26.02.2006 NP
> * Fix dependency of texlive onto texlive-latex-base
>
> 25.02.2006 NP
> * Let texlive-base depend on the new NMU of dvipdfmx and blacklist it.
> * Try to stop the build system to build dvipdfmx.
> * Add Provides for virtual packages: dvipdfm, cweb, ctie, texdoctk
>
> 20.02.2006 NP
> * move all files to texmf-texlive, only a few essential stay in
> * TEXMFMAIN
> * add a new package texlive-full which takes the role of the previous
> texlive package in pulling in all necessary components, while the
> texlive package itself now consists of a selection of packages
> (the -recommended ones, plus doc-en, but no -lang-*)
>
> 19.02.2006 NP
> * conflict: texlive-extra-utils with dviutils (superseeded, more utils)
> * blacklist bin-dvi2tty, but let tl-extra-utils depend on dvi2tty
> * fix problems when switching from teTeX (missing update-language call)
> (all three thanks to Atsuhito Kohda)
>
> 18.02.2006 NP
> * The svn repository has moved to the debian-tex project at alioth,
> thus the revisions now are shifted by ~500.
>
> 13.02.2006 NP
> * remove /var/lib/texmf/web2c/{latex,pdflatex}.{fmt,log} before
> calling fmtutil-sys --all as jadetex (and other formats) with
> a fmtutil config line based on the latex format might use the
> old latex format. (Closes: #351707)
>
> 12.02.2006 NP
> * blacklist /usr/bin/uniqleaf which is a link to texexec but no
> corresponding perl file exists (but it is in tetex).
> * Fix the Build-Depends-Indep vs Build-Depends stuff
> * tipa NMU is in Debian, so depend on it
> * fix for the link files fix
> * cleanup of common.functions (backticks, printf instead of echo -n)
>
> 11.02.2006 NP
> * blacklist lm(odern), and depend on lmodern >= 0.99.3-1, this makes the
> lmodern fonts again available for X (Closes: #351727)
> * included fixes for errors in the depot:
> - remove ltxdoc.cfg from tex/latex/subfig
> - move pst-3d.tex from the doc directory to the proper place
>
> 06.02.2006 NP
> * add a special clause to bug script to see the texmf-texlive/ls-R file
> * import debianize-updmap and other fixes for fmtutil from tetex
>
> 31.01.2006 NP
> * fix installation of files from addons-per-bin
> * link fixing: remove double call to dh_link, install pre-distributed
> links files as package.links.dist, fix update-link-files to copy the
> package.links.dist to package.links, and only append the links from
> package.links.generated
> * add some more man pages (links to pdfetex.1)
>
> 24.01.2006 NP
> * add a watch file to the sources
> * add poppler/Link.h for building with poppler >= 0.5.0. Thanks to Martin
> Pitt.
> * texpower is updated, let texlive depend on it
>
> 15.01.2006 NP
> * expand reportbug script to include an ls -l of texmf.cnf, fmtutil.cnf
> updmap.cfg, and language.dat
>
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