Hi Maruo, (+Cc: Jon, linux-doc) On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 04:37:07 +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Thu, 6 Jan 2022 11:00:08 +0900 > Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: [...] >> Longer term (for CentOS stream9 or RHEL 9), we might need to ask >> EPEL maintainers to add texlive-ctex. > > Longer term, the script is actually fixing a broken dependency issue > on distros. So, bugzillas for Fedora/Debian & derivated ones should be > opened for "texlive-xecjk" package to also select "texlive-ctex" > (or whatever other name those packages have on distros). FWIW, I asked Karl Berry, who is the chief maintainer of upstream TeX Live, to add a dependency on ctex to xecjk [1]. [1]: https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2022-January/047648.html Karl has added the dependency to xecjk as of rev 61529 [2]. [2]: https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2022-January/047654.html On up-to-date vanilla TeX Live 2021 (>= rev61529): $ tlmgr info --data depends xecjk ctex With xecjk < rev61529 $ tlmgr info --data depends xecjk (no output) This dependency is expected to be reflected in the TeX Live packaging for next Fedora release. OTOH, as I mentioned earlier, EPEL 9 (for CentOS stream9) doesn't have texlive-ctex at the moment, so we need to see what happens there when RHEL 9 is ready. Note: the xecjk -> ctex dependency is already taken care of by openSUSE's TeX Live packages. As for Ubuntu/Debian, it looks like TeX Live/Debian packaging maintainer, Norbert Preining, has no intention of adding dependency of texlive-xetex -> texlive-lang-chinese as can be seen in his responses to a Debian Bug report [3]. I think this is a reasonable choice as most xetex users don't use xecjk and texlive-lang-chinese is large in size. [3]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=961703 Thanks, Akira > > Worth mentioning that the script dependency-checking is should be smart > enough to not break once texlive distro maintainers fix such issues. > > Thanks, > Mauro >
