RFC for updating TEX to 2021
- Reply: Tobias C. Berner: "Re: RFC for updating TEX to 2021"
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:57:48 UTC
Hi, I have been able to port TEX 2021 but there are some failures and caveats which I wanted to discuss with the community. I have checked only the ports that has USE_TEX in their Makefile : What changed and what are the failures: 1. cslatex support has been DEPRECATED upstream 2. print/tex-aleph has been removed as upstream has also removed it 3. Fails to build - databases/bbdb (Last release was on 2018) - misc/latex-mk (Last release was on 2010) - textproc/dblatex (The location of the required file has changed can be easily patched) - textproc/bibtool (Someone with latex knowledge should be able to fix this) - print/sgf2tex (Last release was on 2001) - print/lgrind (Last release was on 2001) - print/muttprint (Last release was on 2008) - cad/alliance (Last release was on 2019) - math/asymptote (Should be able to fix this later with someone’s help who knows) 4. Dependents - print/lilypond{-devel} depends on textproc/dblatex but if we upgrade lilypond it will no longer require dblatex In case someone want to check the logs they are available here: http://pdr.bofh.network/jail.html?mastername=123-tex http://pdr.bofh.network/jail.html?mastername=123i386-tex http://pdr.bofh.network/jail.html?mastername=130-tex http://pdr.bofh.network/jail.html?mastername=MAIN-tex So my question is whether if we are okay with UPDATING to 2021 while these 10/12 ports are BROKEN/IGNORED? I am looking forward to move forward a bit faster as there are lots of files involved and the files changes every now and then and merging everytime is really painful with this big of a patchset. Thanks in advance for advices and flames. :D Kind Regards, Moin (bofh)