On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Robert J. Clay <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Chris Travers <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I am looking into LaTeX escaping in 1.4. There is a CPAN module that
> > handles this but it doesn't seem to work without patching. The module is
> > LaTeX::Encode.
>
> What kind of patch does it need? And is there already a cpan bug for
> it?
>
The issue is scoping. It uses strict mode and variables in
LaTeX::Encode::EncodingTable without declaring them first. I sent the
author a patch which effectively copied three variables from the latter
namespace since these seem pretty static.
>
>
> > I would like to propose that for 1.4, unless this is resolved and tested
> in
> > both Debian repo versions
>
> Note that 0.08-2 is the current version of it in Debian Testing and
> Unstable; includes a patch for a FTBFS (Fails To Build From Source)
> POD issue...
>
You can test easily.
perl -MLaTeX::Encode -e print
if it fails to load the library, it needs to be patched.
Best wishes,
Chris Travers
>
>
> > and the main CPAN distribution point, that we ship
> > a patched version of the code that we maintain.
>
> > Any objection?
>
> From the viewpoint of the Debian packaging; yes. (Debian policy is
> against it...) OTOH; it would be relatively easy to add a patch to
> the package in Debian for it, especially if there is already a cpan
> bug for the issue and that bug has still not been resolved by the time
> it's needed for the changes you have in mind.
>
>
>
> Jame
>
>
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