Dear Release Team, I am proposing to update src:texlive-bin in Jessie to a new version. The version that was released unfortunately is completely broken when one tries to use Xe(La)TeX with Type1 fonts (this was a side-effect of switching from libfreetype to harfbuzz).
One of the most prominent examples of a document that does this are the Debian release-notes. Building the release-notes on Jessie results in all letters shifted by one position, that is completely broken documents. See attachement 1, jessie-original.png as examples. Unfortunately, the fix for this problem has entered TeX Live upstream only very recently. For unstable I have fixed this with the recent upload of 2015.20150524.37493-6 which uses the released TeX Live 2015 sources and includes the TeX Live subversion changes in the dvipdfm-x subdirectory. Fixing this in Jessie, which is based on older TeX Live sources, unfortunately cannot be done by patching, as there have been too many unrelated changes. Thus, I have prepared an updated packages that does the following: * keep the current Jessie sources as is * include a checkout/tar of the current TeX Live svn dvipdfmx-x directory which fixes the problem * on build, replace the buggy dvipdm-x directory with the fixed one from current TeX Live. Due to the highly modular build system of TeX Live, this procedure is safe. With these packages installed, building the release notes again works as expected, see attached screenshot 2, jessie-fixed.png. I am well aware that this is a big change, and that there is no diff that can be shown (well, I could make a diff between the current dvipdfm-x and the new one, but that will not help as it is too big). We have been discussing this extensively on the Debian TeX list, starting here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-tex-maint/2015/06/msg00159.html and Osamu Aoki (in Cc) supports the unconvential update (see https://lists.debian.org/debian-tex-maint/2015/06/msg00206.html) The updated packages (source and amd64) are available at deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ jessie/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ jessie/ or directly via dget http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/jessie/texlive-bin_2014.20140926.35254-7.dsc (all signed with my Debian key) I include the debdiff between the current source and the proposed updates (attachment 3). The changes are: * debian/control: add dependency on t1utils as t1disasm program is necessary for the new dvipdfm-x * debian/rules: add code to unpack the dvipdmfx tarball and undo the changes on clean Thanks for consideration Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff -Nru texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/changelog texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/changelog --- texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/changelog 2015-01-19 00:04:33.000000000 +0900 +++ texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/changelog 2015-08-26 08:12:58.000000000 +0900 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +texlive-bin (2014.20140926.35254-7) stable-proposed-updates; urgency=medium + + * update dvipdfmx to a version where Type1 font is fixed + * add t1utils (for t1disasm, needed by new dvipdfm*) to dependencies + + -- Norbert Preining <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Aug 2015 08:12:23 +0900 + texlive-bin (2014.20140926.35254-6) unstable; urgency=high * cherrypick security fix for libpng CVE-2015-0973 (Closes: #775673) diff -Nru texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/control texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/control --- texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/control 2015-01-19 00:04:33.000000000 +0900 +++ texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/control 2015-08-26 08:12:58.000000000 +0900 @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Package: texlive-binaries Architecture: any -Depends: libptexenc1 (>= ${source:Version}), libptexenc1 (<< ${source:Version}.1~), libkpathsea6 (>= ${source:Version}), libkpathsea6 (<< ${source:Version}.1~), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, tex-common (>= 5.02), perl, dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info +Depends: libptexenc1 (>= ${source:Version}), libptexenc1 (<< ${source:Version}.1~), libkpathsea6 (>= ${source:Version}), libkpathsea6 (<< ${source:Version}.1~), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, tex-common (>= 5.02), t1utils, perl, dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info Recommends: texlive-base, python, ruby, wish Replaces: texlive-metapost (<< 2010), texlive-base (<< 2010), ptex-bin, mendexk, jmpost, luatex (<< 2014) Conflicts: mendexk, makejvf, jmpost Binary files /tmp/0SFyclep7P/texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/dvipdfmx-20150823.tar.gz and /tmp/NdrHJIJj8N/texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/dvipdfmx-20150823.tar.gz differ diff -Nru texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/gbp.conf texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/gbp.conf --- texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/gbp.conf 2015-01-19 00:04:33.000000000 +0900 +++ texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/gbp.conf 2015-08-26 08:12:58.000000000 +0900 @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@ [DEFAULT] tarball-dir = ../tarballs +debian-branch=jessie diff -Nru texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/rules texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/rules --- texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/rules 2015-01-19 00:04:33.000000000 +0900 +++ texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/rules 2015-08-26 08:12:58.000000000 +0900 @@ -65,8 +65,20 @@ dh $@ --with autoreconf --builddirectory Work override_dh_autoreconf: + # dvipdfmx needs updating, as it is completely broken with + # respect to postscript type1 files + mv texk/dvipdfm-x texk/dvipfm-x.save + tar -xzf debian/dvipdfmx-20150823.tar.gz dh_autoreconf --as-needed +override_dh_autoreconf_clean: + # undo the dvipdfmx fixes + if [ -r texk/dvipdfm-x.save ] ; then \ + rm -rf texk/dvipdfm-x ; \ + mv texk/dvipdfm-x.save texk/dvipdfm-x ; \ + fi + dh_autoreconf_clean + # # we need libpng >= 1.4 which is not available in unstable and # seems not to arrive anytime soon. We have to rebuild also diff -Nru texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/source/include-binaries texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/source/include-binaries --- texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/source/include-binaries 1970-01-01 09:00:00.000000000 +0900 +++ texlive-bin-2014.20140926.35254/debian/source/include-binaries 2015-08-26 08:12:58.000000000 +0900 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +debian/dvipdfmx-20150823.tar.gz
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