[Pkg-texlive-maint] Re: TeX live for Debian upload to unstable - Call for testers

[Norbert Preining]

Hi all!

After a bit of problems another -2 is on the tug server (soon).

> 	deb(-src) http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ pool.new/

I have made a decent changelog, fixed ibycus4.map problem, and included
my own tpm2licenses (which needed some changes).

The only thing I am too sick to do is that there is again a lintian
warning which makes me sick:

W: texlive-common: wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog usr/share/doc/texlive-common/CHANGES.packaging.gz

Stupid that I choose this name, next version will have something
different, and I hope Neil will not be picky about this one ...

All the other comments are as before:

> If you test, you have to PURGE all texlive packages before
> reinstallation. Sorry for this, but I want a clean start un unstable and
> several links have moved to the new package
> 	texlive-common
> this one provides the doc links (so tetex texdoc finds the
> documentation) and ls-R link and basic information.


If you have already one -2 installed, no need to purge, just
	aptitude reinstall '~ntexlive'

> Please test it. I want to ask Neil to do an upload next week. It has
> been about 4 months since -1 entered experimental, so I guess it istime
> for a new release.

The Debian changelog entry:

version 2005-2 unstable Thu, 11 May 2006 00:12:10 +0200

  * first upload to unstable, sponsored by 
    Neil McGovern <maulkin at halon.org.uk>
  * texdoc support
    - let tetex texdoc find documentation of texlive (Closes: #364776)
    - include tetex texdoc patches (following of symlinks, security
      fixes) (Closes: #356390)
  * texlive-lang-polish conflicts with octave-forge as both provide
    /usr/bin/mex, this is preliminary, a better solution must be
    sought (Closes: #364059)
  * change shell for the reportbug script to bash (Closes: #356391)
  * fix installation of thumbpdf and pdfcrop (Closes: #352092)
  * improve various descriptions (Closes: #354964)
  * call the update-* programs in all postinst scripts, so that the
    config files do not contain left-overs (Closes: #355266)
  * fix creation of formats which in turn depend on the latex format
    (Closes: #351707)
  * remap the ibycus4.map TeX/MF input file from the fonts/map location
    to the fonts/source location (Closes: #354652)
  * depend on the updated lmodern package, thus making the fonts
    available for X (Closes: #351727)
  * lots of internal changes, important ones being:
    - texlive packages now do not include files which have been
      packaged for Debian already (eg cm-super, lmodern, musixtex)
    - most packages can be used together with teTeX
    - fix several upstream bugs
    - generate license information for each file from the
      TeX Catalogue (ongoing work)
    for detailed changes see CHANGES.packaging in texlive-common


The entries from CHANGES.packaging from yesterday and today:
11.05.2006 NP
  * another fix for tpm2licenses to not break if there is an empty
    directory (or one only containing links!)
  * Upload to unstable sponsored by Neil McGovern <maulkin at halon.org.uk>

10.05.2006 NP
  * Build-Dep on tex-common not necessary as we include tpm2licenses
    and fixed Tpm.pm (can go away with next version when the fixes
    are in tex-common)
  * The build-dep day, finding what all is necessary for a clean build
    with tpm2licenses: libappconfig-perl, libxml-dom-perl
  * Really fix the ibycus4.map problem (Closes: #354652)
  * adjust dvipdfmx recommend version to 1:20050831-1
  * Install this file as CHANGES.packaging into texlive-common, and
    create a streamlined and terse changelog.



Best wishes

Norbert

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