Hi Jonathan, On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:30:44PM +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > 2009/10/30 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > I'm presenting a complete list of packages shipped in TeX Live to > > discuss another possible obsoletions: > > > > dvipdfm > > dvipdfmx > > I think the latest TeXLive doesn't include dvipdfm as its > functionality is now covered by dvipdfmx. Anyway, In both cases I am > the packager, and would rather see the texlive variant shipped and the > packages obsoleted. TeX Live 2009 builds dvipdfm when it is not explicitely disabled. Also collection-basic depends on both dvipdfm and dvipdfmx. So I decided to ship them both. > > > > xdvi > Again, would prefer if we obsoleted the separate package and went with > the texlive variant. Here however we may need to shipp a separate > package for the japanese patched version. Or we could integrate the > japanese patch into texlive - this may need some work though, as the > japanese patch seems to be unmaintined presently. Longer term I hope > xdvi just goes away, as its functionality increasingly gets added to > evince - xdvi is only minimally maintained at this point and is > rather... crusty. > I'm not sure about Japanese support here. IIRC Takanori MATSUURA works on this support for TL2009. At this point I would prefer to propose this effort to TL upstream so that we needn't to forwardport these patches too often. I could imagine that Takanori could be official upstream of the new xdvi package providing Japanese support if TL upstream is not against it. > > > dvipng > > Yep, we should simply go with the texlive version - I am happy with > this, as dvipng maintainer. > > > xdvipdfmx > > > > I'm not primary maintainer of this one, but again, I think we should > go with the texlive shipped version (which is ahead of the version > available as a separate tarball). > > Let me know if you need any help with this. > > Cheers, > Jonathan At last but not least, all the mentioned packages are obsoleted by their TeX Live variant for some time already in the Fedora repo. Cheers, Jindrich -- Jindrich Novy <jnovy@xxxxxxxxxx> http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
