[Fedora TeX Live] retiring xdvipdfmx package

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 13:21:38 CEST 2012


I will now retire xdvipdfmx from rawhide.  Are we ready?  Proper
obsoletes/provides are in place?

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> 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).
>
> Best,
> Jindrich
>
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