On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:46:03AM +0100, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: > Le 24/03/2020 à 09:06, Leandro Nini via blfs-support a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > (re-sending here as I'm not on the -dev list) > > > > there are a couple of package updates that seem to have slipped from your > > radar. > > > > First is libwacom, now maintained on github at > > https://github.com/linuxwacom/libwacom. The latest release is libwacom-1.2. > > > > Then is psutils, on github too at https://github.com/rrthomas/psutils. The > > latest release is v1.93 but it might be a development version, Fedora have > > 1.23 as latest package: > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/psutils/psutils-1.23.tar.xz/eedd282973a58ac6bbf890316a3b02d8/psutils-1.23.tar.xz > > > > > > Thanks for the heads up. For psutils, it needs "paper" > (https://github.com/rrthomas/paper), which is a replacement for libpaper. > But would the packages in the book, which depend on libpaper, build with > paper? > Actually, seems libpaper is recommended for texlive (context and selatex) > optional for cups, ghostscript, a2ps, and libreoffice. > > We could also have both paper and libpaper, but we need to ensure they can be > installed side by side. > > Pierre
Looking at psutils releases at github, 1.20,1,2,3 (with some duplications, as if the release process had some fubars) and then 1.90,1,2,3 : I think that the 1.9x versions are indeed development varsions. This is not a package I have ever built, at least since I put my scripts into git almost 10 years ago, so I don't really have any interest in it. I see that paper comes from the same dev, but I think there might be problems at github (can't get to the dev's page to see his other repos, cannot retrieve latest commit for paper). Hmm, AUR claims to have paper v2.0. Unfortunately, paper is a common enough word (and there is also Paper for java etc on android which is is not related), so at the moment googling to find who uses paper rather than libpaper is not useful. Looking at AUR, paper is only used by psutils. According to AUR this replaces rrthomas-libpaper and I can find a little more by googling for that : a link from 2013 re texlive https://tug.org/pipermail/tlbuild/2013q4/002718.html which suggests it was not compatible. OTOH, AUR has it as an optional dep for TL2019. I'd prefer to see some wider usage before saying it is a preferred replacement for libpaper rather than just another fork. ĸen -- When alle is ſayed and all is done, ye must chooſe your faces wisely, for soon enouff ye will be playing with fyre." The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Prophecy 5004 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
