[Fedora TeX Live] retiring xdvipdfmx package

[Jindrich Novy]

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
> 
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> Fedora Project

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