reassign 419987 xmltex retitle 419987 configuration runs into neverending loop # I don't like the phrase "leaks memory", there's no C coding error here
Johannes Ranke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070420 10:30]: >> Johannes Ranke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > * Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070420 09:20]: >> >> Johannes Ranke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Couldn't texlive-base-bin conflict with xmltex? >> >> >> >> Of course not, since that would mean that xmltex isn't installable any >> >> more - there's no other TeX system in sid. >> > >> > Citing from the xmltex package: >> > "XMLTeX is a non-validating, namespace-aware XML parser written in TeX. >> > It allows TeX to directly process XML files." >> > >> > Usually I process tex files with TeX, not XML files. So I figured I >> > don't need xmltex. Did I miss something, like texlive converts every >> > tex/latex file into XML and then uses xmltex? >> >> No, why? What's the problem you are trying to address? > > See bug title. As Norbert already pointed out, this needs fixes in xmltex. I was answering to your proposed solution "Couldn't texlive-base-bin conflict with xmltex", and since you insisted on discussing this, I am asking why. > The problem is, that if you have xmltex installed, an upgrade > from tetex to texlive freezes the system. I think this is worth > addressing quickly, since it is very annoying to have to restart the > system. As I understood from Norberts comment, fixing xmltex might take > a while. No, he wrote about the number of changes, not the time it takes (Actually the work is already done by us, just the xmltex maintainer is inactive). It wasn't clear to me that you were talking about an interim solution. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
