[tex-live] TeXlive for Debian - version 2004.05.09.25-1 soon online

[Norbert Preining]

Dear friends!
  
Current Version: 2004.05.09.25-1

A new generation of Debian packages of TeX live are available on the tug
server, as usual
 	http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html
and get it at
 	deb http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ pool/
 	deb-src http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ pool/

Important News (for details see below!):

* new numbering scheme (tlversion.yy.mm.dd) where tlversion
  is the last *released* TeX live version and yy.mm.dd is the current
  date. This way we can have regular releases 200N-debrelease and
  additional releases between official TeX live releases.

* I fixed all problems which I found in the last week(s), especially
  problems with fmt generation and different languages.

* New maintainer adress, and email contact point:
  Debian TeX live Maintainers <pkg-texlive-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>
  if someone wants to help/cooperate you are invited to subscribe to
  this list!!

* reworked the tug website http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html

As usual, the log files of the creation process are in 
 	http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/log/
The file lintian.log shows that the errors/warnings are getting less.
The two errors now present are rubbish, lintian is stupid on this.
 
Other thing:
cm-super (now again distributed half sized)
	NEWS: the font files are again under dpkg control, *and* the
	md5sums are correct, *and* the distributed .deb is still only
	half the size. I hacked around the md5sum stuff.
         deb http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ cm-super/
         deb-src http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ cm-super/
texinfo working with tetex 3.0 and texlive:
         deb http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ texinfo/
         deb-src http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ texinfo/
 
Please give the packages a test if you are running sid.

News from last version:
25.09.2005 NP
  * Change the test for fmtutil-sys --byhyphen to fmtutil-sys --listcfg
    and grep for ^latex.
  * Remove the chmod -x stuff, it breaks execution of various web2c/*
    scripts (mktexupd, tcfmgr, ...)
  * Switch to new numbering scheme (tlversion.yy.mm.dd) where tlversion
    is the last *released* TeX live version and yy.mm.dd is the current
    date. This way we can have regular releases 200N-debrelease and 
    additional releases between official TeX live releases.
  * Fix the order of ifs in postrm scripts so that first the existence of
    fmtutil-sys is checked, and then wether the latex fmt is installed.
  * Add myself to the Uploaders field.
  * New source version, including up to perforce change #8177

24.09.2005 NP
  * Forget to remove the "all" from the generated rules file. It does
    not hurt at build time, but I don't like it.
  * add the fmtutil-sys --byhyphen calling check also to the postrm scripts
  * remove x bit from all files under texlive-trees at source packages
    built time

23.09.2005 NP
  * Fix the lang postinst scripts so that fmtutil-sys --byhyphen is only
    called if language.dat is found. This is not the optimal method, but
    the best I can think of ATM.
  * Actually copy source and not source.development from the depot
  * make the architecture parameter to tpm2deb unnecessary and put config
    for this into the tpm2deb.cfg file. Update all the debian/rules files.
  * Change Maintainer to: 
    Debian TeX live Maintainers <pkg-texlive-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>
  * Added some documentation to tpm2deb.pl, and cleaned up the script

Best wishes

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining AT logic DOT at>             Università di Siena
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