> On 30 May 2024, at 21:19, Henning Hraban Ramm <te...@fiee.net> wrote: > > Am 30.05.24 um 19:25 schrieb Kip Warner: >> On Thu, 2024-05-30 at 18:26 +0200, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: >>> Is this a message "I'm volunteering to maintain such a ppa" or a >>> message "wouldn't it be nice if someone went out of their way to make >>> my life easier"? Just out of curiosity. >> Right now it's the latter due to time constraints. Although I have >> helped a number of free software projects get PPAs up and running. >> Usually once they're up there's not much to do after. Since ConTeXt is >> already Debianized by the Debian project, you probably can start with >> their debian/ folder, edit as needed, and then you should be good. You >> can also set an automatic build recipe in the PPA so each commit to SCM >> results in a new nightly. >> You'll get a lot more people using and testing your newer release this >> way. Food for thought. > > I can assure you the worldwide TeX community has thought about their approach > a few times. > TeX Live packaging (i.e. mostly LaTeX packaging) is different to Linux > packaging. Somebody explained it to me in detail, but I can’t remember… > At least TeX Live’s yearly release setup doesn’t fit… well, anything else (I > find it annoying). But for release date, many of the active contributors make > sure everything fits together. > > ConTeXt is different in that the distribution is closely coupled to binary > versions. It would be possible to set up a PPA independent of TeX Live, I > guess. (Have binary & macros in the same package, maybe docs & fonts > separate…) But somebody would have to maintain it.
I'd be able to maintain a Context PPA but there already seems to be one: <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/context> The dates on that page confuse me, however. It says the last upload of the package was 2023-05-05 but that it somehow contains the Context version from 2024-04-09. I'm not quite sure how that can be the case? Also it's not clear to me whether that PPA is Context alone or TeXlive plus a bunch of TeX stuff including Context? (I could install it of course.) :-) — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
