[Fedora TeX Live] retiring xdvipdfmx package

[Neal Becker]

xdvipdfmx is now retired for rawhide (but not f18)

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Jindrich Novy <jnovy at 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
>
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