Package: nbibtex Version: 0.9.18-10 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
In attempting to modify and rebuild nbibtex, I find that modifying 'nbib.nw'
and re-running noweb produces a bibtex.lua file rather than the
bibtex.lua.in file that is shipped as part of the source. How the latter
was generated from the former is never stated and the diff between the two
is alarmingly large.
Further, the nbib.nw file is lacking patches applied to nbib.c directly
(mostly whitespace, but also the s/getline/get_line/ rename); this despite
the Makefile target to rebuild the .c files from the .nw.
Speaking of, there appears to be some confusion of responsibility; the
Makefile knows how to rebuild nbib{,tex}.c using notangle, but configure
builds bibtex.lua from bibtex.lua.in (which is surely derived somehow via
notangle) while simultaneously writing out the Makefile. I would suggest
that it be made the Makefile's responsibility to produce the bibtex.lua file
via notangle and then mangle it as configure currently does.
Additionally, the version of the tarball offered from Debian's source
tracking claims 0.9.18, but the homepage is still serving 0.9.9; whence this
newer version?
Thanks,
--nwf;
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (102, 'unstable'), (101,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.6-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages nbibtex depends on:
ii libc6 2.17-92+b1
ii liblua5.1-0 5.1.5-5
ii lua5.1 5.1.5-5
Versions of packages nbibtex recommends:
ii texlive-latex-base 2012.20120611-5
nbibtex suggests no packages.
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