Bug 314795 – TeX Live texlive 2009 stabilisation request

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Matija "hook" Šuklje 2010-04-12 10:53:14 UTC]

After quite a decent period of existance in the Portage tree, wouldn't it slowly be time to see if TeX Live 2009 can be deemed as stable?

[Comment 1 Alexis Ballier 2010-04-12 11:12:13 UTC]

why not but we'll need to sort out the bugs first

[Comment 2 Matija "hook" Šuklje 2010-04-12 11:22:29 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> why not but we'll need to sort out the bugs first

Wouldn't have it any other way ;)

BTW, thank you guys for maintaining TeX (and ConTeXt).

[Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-05-13 12:03:53 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> why not but we'll need to sort out the bugs first
> 

unless someone is willing to backport the libpng14 fixes to 2008, we pretty much need this now.

[Comment 4 Andreas K. Hüttel 2010-10-03 13:00:09 UTC]

Here's my 2ct:

bug 303067: dev-texlive/texlive-context, buggy context
Not sure how much we can do here except wait for 2010. I tried to patch in newer files from tl-2009 and replace context with even newer, but this just led to more breakage. Non-trivial problem

bug 304551: dev-texlive/texlive-latex{,recommended}: caption, hyperref conflict
Not a showstopper I'd say.

bug 307223: dev-texlive/texlive-context, simplefonts needs newer context
see above comments for bug 303067

bug 309997: dev-texlive/texlive-fontsextra, world writable files
Could be solved quick'n'dirty by a brute-force workaround in src_install (go over files in image and fix permissions)

bug 310039: dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra, world writeable files
see above comments for bug 309997

bug 312009: app-text/texlive-core-2009-r1, XeTeX config file dvipdfmx.cfg warning
Can be solved according to the bug report by adding dvipdfmx-20100328-r1 to RDEPEND.

With this in mind, I'd suggest
* copying app-text/texlive-2009 to 2009-r1, and removing the context useflag from -2009
* applying above "hotfixes"
* requesting stabilization of app-text/texlive-2009 (i.e. tl-09 without context)

What do you think?

[Comment 5 Alexis Ballier 2010-10-03 14:04:45 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Here's my 2ct:

mine: keep 2008 stable, drop 2009 once 2010 is in tree, stabilize 2010

> bug 303067: dev-texlive/texlive-context, buggy context
> Not sure how much we can do here except wait for 2010. I tried to patch in
> newer files from tl-2009 and replace context with even newer, but this just led
> to more breakage. Non-trivial problem

Work out a dev-tex/context ebuild based on what debian is doing.

> bug 304551: dev-texlive/texlive-latex{,recommended}: caption, hyperref conflict
> Not a showstopper I'd say.
> 
> bug 307223: dev-texlive/texlive-context, simplefonts needs newer context
> see above comments for bug 303067

should be gone with 2010
 
> bug 309997: dev-texlive/texlive-fontsextra, world writable files
> Could be solved quick'n'dirty by a brute-force workaround in src_install (go
> over files in image and fix permissions)
> 
> bug 310039: dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra, world writeable files
> see above comments for bug 309997

cannot reproduce it; explanations on the bug are welcome :)

> bug 312009: app-text/texlive-core-2009-r1, XeTeX config file dvipdfmx.cfg
> warning
> Can be solved according to the bug report by adding dvipdfmx-20100328-r1 to
> RDEPEND.

not sure it's the correct solution

> With this in mind, I'd suggest
> * copying app-text/texlive-2009 to 2009-r1, and removing the context useflag
> from -2009
> * applying above "hotfixes"
> * requesting stabilization of app-text/texlive-2009 (i.e. tl-09 without
> context)
> 
> What do you think?

hu, no
context is an important part of tl these days; dropping it is certainly a no go

[Comment 6 Alexis Ballier 2010-10-24 18:14:54 UTC]

I'd rather go with TeX Live 2010 which will be in the tree today (masked though)