xdvipdfmx is now retired for rawhide (but not f18) On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Jindrich Novy <jn...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 07:19:48AM -0400, Tom Callaway wrote: > > On 10/10/2012 03:31 AM, Jindrich Novy wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 07:43:00AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > > >> I've been seeing broken builddeps for xdvipdfmx in rawhide: > > >> > > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488651 > > >> > > >> Since texlive 2012 is going into rawhide, I believe xdvipdfmx package > > >> should be retired. Any thoughts? > > > > > > Yes please. TeX Live 2012 now ships its own xdvipdfmx and because it > > > would be much more easier to maintain the TeX Live variant, then it > > > makes sense to retire it (so that we won't have two copies of the same > > > thing in Fedora). > > > > Is there any chance we can get a list of all the packages that need to > > be retired? > > Sure. I have already sent a message to a couple of maintainers of TeX > related packages present in Fedora regarding obsoletion. Most of the > maintainers were OK with the idea. > > The list is here: > tetex-tex4ht > dvipdfmx > xdvipdfmx > dvipdfm > xdvik > dvipng > chktex > tex-musixtex > > I haven't contacted owners of TeX font packages present in Fedora. > > Jindrich > > > > > ~tom > > > > == > > Fedora Project > > -- > 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 >
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