On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 12:31:24PM +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 02:02:02PM -0400, Tom Callaway wrote: > > On 08/29/2012 11:12 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > > I'm starting to run into issues with the rather old texlive in Fedora > > > and I was just wondering how the license review was going. The last > > > summary appears to have been in December: > > > http://www.linux.cz/pipermail/texlive/2011-December/000344.html > > > > > > And in that, I see four things which were indicated to be important: > > > > > > ec, ec-euro, setspace, texdraw > > > > I believe all license issues are now resolved in TeXLive 2012, Jindrich > > are you aware of any? > > I'm currently not aware of any legal show-stoppers for TeX Live 2012. > > The only blocker which makes it hard to let TeX Live 2012 be easily > introduced in Fedora is the Font Packaging Policy [1]. The problem is that > the current implementation of font packaging macros enforces to have > all TTF, TTC, PFA, PFB, PCF, OTF files in the same font family to be a > separate subpackage of the main RPM shipping fonts. The problem is > that the design of the macros allows only one subpackage per spec. > It means we need to introduce 174 new packages shipping fonts to > Fedora before the rest of the TeX Live packages can be introduced > there. > > In case there wouldn't be such restriction for fonts we would need > just 2 packages to be reviewed/imported to have TeX Live 2012 in > Fedora (one for binaries, the other for CTAN noarch builds). Also it > would be much easier to maintain it/syncing it with upstream. > > Jindrich > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:FontsPolicy
Yet one more thing. In case the mass import will really be needed there is a list of sample font specs and related SRPMs which are generated from upstream: http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/2012/font-packages/ Feel free to propose any changes in the spec generation so that it could be improved and ease the review. Thanks! Jindrich -- Jindrich Novy <jn...@redhat.com> http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/ Kdo víno má a nepije, kdo hrozny má a nejí je, kdo ženu má a nelíbá, kdo zábavě se vyhýbá, na toho vemte bič a hůl, to není člověk, to je vůl. --- Jan Werich _______________________________________________ TeXLive mailing list TeXLive@linux.cz http://www.linux.cz/mailman/listinfo/texlive
