Bug 558682 – dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic-2014 (and later?) ESKDX patch fixes issues for Russian language

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• Status: UNCONFIRMED ---

[Description Sergey S. Starikoff 2015-08-25 10:30:38 UTC]

Created attachment 410194 [details]
texlive-2014_error.tex

In dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic present very useful package ESKDX.
One command, used in it, was changed and removed from base packages.

After stabilization of =app-text/texlive-2014 (see bug #550840) I was very unpleased finding some documents broken (compillation failed with new version).

The error message:
! Undefined control sequence.
\ESKDcolumnXVIname ->\No 
                         \ \cyr \cyrd \cyro \cyrk \cyru \cyrm .
l.5 \begin{document}


Minimal example file, demonstrating this error in attach.

[Comment 1 Sergey S. Starikoff 2015-08-25 10:33:27 UTC]

Created attachment 410196 [details, diff]
texlive-2014_eskdx.patch

Attaching patch, fixes this issue for Russian language.

I'm not familiar with texlive development, so I'm not shure this patch is completely corerct.
But it (or something similiar) should follow ESKD package in texlive-langcyrillic-2014 installations.

[Comment 2 Alexis Ballier 2015-08-26 08:02:07 UTC]

could you please contact the package author to propose your patch ?
see the ctan page: https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eskdx

I'm all for applying your patch if it fixes a problem, but I prefer to have some feedback from those that know best before doing so

[Comment 3 Sergey S. Starikoff 2015-09-07 10:27:05 UTC]

(In reply to Alexis Ballier from comment #2)
> could you please contact the package author to propose your patch ?
> see the ctan page:
> https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eskdx
I've tried to do it before reporting this bug.
But got no response till now.

> I'm all for applying your patch if it fixes a problem, but I prefer to have
> some feedback from those that know best before doing so
You can easely configm this bug.
To do it just build =app-text/texlive-2014 with LINGUAS="ru" (i.e. =dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic-2014) and try to compile attached example.

To confirm fix you need just to re-emerge =dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic-2014 with applying suggested (and attached) patch and re-compile attached example.

[Comment 4 Alexis Ballier 2015-09-18 15:02:52 UTC]

(In reply to Sergey S. Starikoff from comment #3)
> (In reply to Alexis Ballier from comment #2)
> > could you please contact the package author to propose your patch ?
> > see the ctan page:
> > https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eskdx
> I've tried to do it before reporting this bug.
> But got no response till now.


Then you might want to contact CTAN people, or try to upload a fixed package. See:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/188430/publishing-a-package-update-on-ctan

https://www.ctan.org/upload?lang=en


(note: maybe the author has a new email address and forgot to update this package, ctan people might know better)


> > I'm all for applying your patch if it fixes a problem, but I prefer to have
> > some feedback from those that know best before doing so
> You can easely configm this bug.
> To do it just build =app-text/texlive-2014 with LINGUAS="ru" (i.e.
> =dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic-2014) and try to compile attached example.
> 
> To confirm fix you need just to re-emerge
> =dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic-2014 with applying suggested (and
> attached) patch and re-compile attached example.

I believe you, it's just I prefer to go the proper way with such changes and getting the patch through people that know best (package author, ctan people), and that I don't consider myself qualified for reviewing a change in a CTAN package I have never used before :)