Hi Frank, A ConTeXt's package for debian will be great !
Frank Küster a écrit : >Hi everybody, > >this mail has a double purpose. At the end, there's a call for testers >of a new (planned) Debian ConTeXt package that would be updated more >frequently than now (at least in unstable and testing), where ConTeXt is >tied to teTeX's or TeXlive's release cycles. But first, I'd like to >talk about > >http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Debian_installation > >Are some of the people around who wrote this? I found some information >in it misleading and in part just wrong (this has already been pointed >out two weaks ago by "plink"), and have started to edit the page to >change the parts that give us, the Debian TeX maintaines, most >headache. But in the lower part, "Steps to finish a first context >upgrade", I felt lost. If these steps are really needed, then there's >something seriously wrong in Debian's (and probably upstream's) >packaging of ConTeXt. Therefore I didn't just change the text to >reflect how I think it should work. Instead, we should try to figure >out together whether it in fact does not work as it should, and then fix >the Debian packages (hopefully still possible for etch). > > > My contributions was to copy "Install a Metapost update" and "Install a pdfTeX update" from tetex 3.0 Install to Debian Install... >From my pov, ConTeXt is really great because of the reactivity of the devs. As a consequence, new astonishing features are often added... but there is a price: update often to the latest realease + install the latest metapost and the latest pdfTeX (moreover, here I need the latest beta of pdfTeX). IMHO, it will be nice if the deb provides debian's specifics + interactiv cont-tmf.zip download + install according debian specifics... but there will be dependencies problems... Maybe a full standalone context is the solution (with metapost, pdfTeX and all the binaries we need coexisting with the tetex's one) ? Dunno... Last point, it could be nice to have beta packages for ConTeXt an m-bib (separated)... >So the specific question I have are: > >- Is it intended that context formats end up in $TEXMF/web2c/pdfetex/? > If yes, why is that so? If not, we should rather find out why it > happens and fix it. > > It's the way ConTeXt does... ConTeXt's gurus have surely good reasons so I let them answer... >- Why does it make a difference if the formats are created by fmtutil > instead of texexec (Except for the output directory)? Should the > upstream packaging be changed so that fmtutil is never used, but > texexec, or should fmtutil be fixed to produce the same as texexec? > > idem >Finally, here comes Norbert Preining's Call for Testers: > >Dear all! > >We = Debian TeX maintainers searching for users of the Debian Operating >Systems which are also using ConTeXt. > >Currently Debian etch (testing) and sid (unstable) contains packages for >TeX live 2005. But this contains a bit old ConTeXt version, so users are >asking us to update ConTeXt. > >We have prepared a updated ConTeXt package for Debian, based on the >latest released version (2006.08.08), and would ask you to help use >testing, as we are not experienced in ConTeXt type settings. I checked >some simple documents from the ConTeXt Garden, and they worked, but more >detailed testing would be nice. > >If you have interest, please contact us at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >or, if you have a bit experience, you can straight away add > deb http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ context/ >to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and install context. After this, >please tell us our experiences/failures/suggestions. > >Thanks a lot and all the best > > > OK, thanks, I'll do it as soon as I have a little more time (after my PhD defense... ;) ) >Regards, Frank > > Renaud _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
