On 14/04/2023 10:13, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 14.04.2023 00:25, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
[This is a follow-up to
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2023-March/253326.html, on the
cygwin list.]
On 3/24/2023 11:00 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
On 3/22/2023 12:56 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
As I mentioned in the announcement of TeX Live 2023, there has been
a major change in ConTeXt; see
https://tug.org/texlive/bugs.html
Briefly, ConTeXt development has been moved out of TeX Live into a
separate project. Unfortunately, the maintainer of that project
decided to remove Cygwin support, so I cannot easily provide a
context binary. One Cygwin user of ConTeXt complained upstream, to
no avail.
At some point I will probably remove the texlive-collection-context
package, which is now useless. But I am waiting to see how other
distros are going to deal with this change.
If you will be greatly inconvenienced by the absence of a context
binary, please let me know by replying to this message. There may
or may not be anything I can do about it.
This turned out to be simple to fix. I will do that shortly, but
first I want to finish discussing this with TeX Live maintainers for
other distros.
This turns out to be a complete mess, with no uniformity among
maintainers, so I'm on my own. The simplest way for me to handle it
is to package the missing binary as part of
texlive-collection-context.(*) This presumably means that the latter
can no longer be a noarch package. Jon, can you (or calm) cope with
a package changing from noarch to x86_64? Alternatively, I could
make a completely new package, say texlive-context-bin, which contains
only the binary, if you think that's better.
It require a manual intervention on the repository but
we have done it in the past in both directions.
Whilst a manual intervention was required in the past, this is no longer
the case.
[1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2019-June/039614.html
