[arch-general] Any ETA on the Tex Live 2015 update?
Hello. Tex Live 2015 was released on June 11. The Arch packages were flagged out-of-date on June 13. I'm wondering if there is any reason for the hold-up. Other than the maintainers(s) being busy of course.
2015-08-22 21:27 GMT+02:00 Mohammad_AlSaleh <ce.mohammad.alsaleh@gmail.com>:
I'm wondering if there is any reason for the hold-up. Other than the maintainers(s) being busy of course.
I'm also curious about this. It seems like the maintainer hasn't been active for the past 5 months.[1] What is the normal course of action in such a case? For instance, how could I contact the maintainer? Thanks, Sebastiaan [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?maintainer=remy
I'm also curious about this. It seems like the maintainer hasn't been active for the past 5 months.[1] What is the normal course of action in such a case? For instance, how could I contact the maintainer?
TeXLive is not a critical package, so what's the rush updating it? If you really want to see an updated version, open a bugreport and attach there a patched PKGBUILD. And of course, you can always build the latest version locally (just clone the svn trunk and run makepkg)... Cheers, -- Leonid Isaev GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6 20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4 C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:00:18 +0000 Leonid Isaev <lisaev@umail.iu.edu> wrote:
I'm also curious about this. It seems like the maintainer hasn't been active for the past 5 months.[1] What is the normal course of action in such a case? For instance, how could I contact the maintainer?
TeXLive is not a critical package, so what's the rush updating it? If you really want to see an updated version, open a bugreport and attach there a patched PKGBUILD. And of course, you can always build the latest version locally (just clone the svn trunk and run makepkg)...
Cheers,
Please do not file a bug report because a package is outdated. This is the #1 rule of the bugtracker. Doug
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:15:32PM -0500, Doug Newgard wrote:
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:00:18 +0000 Leonid Isaev <lisaev@umail.iu.edu> wrote:
I'm also curious about this. It seems like the maintainer hasn't been active for the past 5 months.[1] What is the normal course of action in such a case? For instance, how could I contact the maintainer?
TeXLive is not a critical package, so what's the rush updating it? If you really want to see an updated version, open a bugreport and attach there a patched PKGBUILD. And of course, you can always build the latest version locally (just clone the svn trunk and run makepkg)...
Cheers,
Please do not file a bug report because a package is outdated. This is the #1 rule of the bugtracker.
Sorry, I meant feature request. Of course, opening tickets just to say that a package X is out-of-date is silly. But if the project is complex (like texlive-*) then bumping it may not be a simple issue. So if I happen to go through this exercise before the maintainer, how am supposed to communicate the working PKGBUILD, in an open fashion? A ML would be best of course, but arch-general isn't a place for this... Cheers, -- Leonid Isaev GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6 20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4 C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
2015-08-24 17:59 GMT+02:00 Sebastiaan Lokhorst <sebastiaanlokhorst@gmail.com>:
2015-08-22 21:27 GMT+02:00 Mohammad_AlSaleh <ce.mohammad.alsaleh@gmail.com>:
I'm wondering if there is any reason for the hold-up. Other than the maintainers(s) being busy of course.
I'm also curious about this. It seems like the maintainer hasn't been active for the past 5 months.[1] What is the normal course of action in such a case? For instance, how could I contact the maintainer?
Thanks, Sebastiaan
I am not very active because TeXLive is updated only once a year. I usually do a couple of incremental updates because TeXLive packages also receive continuous updates between 2 yearly releases, and to catch up with bug fixes. The packages are now available in [testing]. They were almost ready for a while but remaining issues had to be fixed and I couldn't find the time until today. You can always contact me through e-mail at remy@archlinux.org. Regards, Rémy.
2015-09-01 15:01 GMT+02:00 Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng@gmail.com>:
I am not very active because TeXLive is updated only once a year. I usually do a couple of incremental updates because TeXLive packages also receive continuous updates between 2 yearly releases, and to catch up with bug fixes.
The packages are now available in [testing]. They were almost ready for a while but remaining issues had to be fixed and I couldn't find the time until today.
You can always contact me through e-mail at remy@archlinux.org.
Regards, Rémy.
Thanks so much for your effort! I wasn't sure about your status so hence my question. Even though you only hear from us when we're complaining, we all appreciate your work! ;) Sebastiaan
On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 03:16:13PM +0200, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:
2015-09-01 15:01 GMT+02:00 Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng@gmail.com>:
I am not very active because TeXLive is updated only once a year. I usually do a couple of incremental updates because TeXLive packages also receive continuous updates between 2 yearly releases, and to catch up with bug fixes.
The packages are now available in [testing]. They were almost ready for a while but remaining issues had to be fixed and I couldn't find the time until today.
You can always contact me through e-mail at remy@archlinux.org.
Regards, Rémy.
Thanks so much for your effort! I wasn't sure about your status so hence my question. Even though you only hear from us when we're complaining, we all appreciate your work! ;) Sebastiaan
+1 Thank you for taking care of those packages. I know how unmotivating such tedious tasks can be for a volunteer.
On 2015年09月03日 00時44分, Mohammad_AlSaleh wrote:
Thank you for taking care of those packages. I know how unmotivating such tedious tasks can be for a volunteer.
I noticed the update, too. Thank you.
+1 Remy, thanks too! All of you maintainers do an excellent job! On Sep 6, 2015 9:35 PM, "Grady Martin" <sunnycemetery@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2015年09月03日 00時44分, Mohammad_AlSaleh wrote:
Thank you for taking care of those packages. I know how unmotivating such tedious tasks can be for a volunteer.
I noticed the update, too. Thank you.
participants (7)
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Doug Newgard
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Grady Martin
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Kyle Bassett
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Leonid Isaev
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Mohammad_AlSaleh
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Rémy Oudompheng
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Sebastiaan Lokhorst