Re: [blfs-support] Package updates (libwacom and psutils)

2020-03-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support

On 3/24/20 3:06 AM, Leandro Nini via blfs-support wrote:

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.  We don't always find out when developers move 
to github but leave their old versions in place.  We need these 
notifications to get up to date.


  -- Bruce

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Re: [blfs-support] Package updates (libwacom and psutils)

2020-03-24 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-support
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
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Re: [blfs-support] Package updates (libwacom and psutils)

2020-03-24 Thread Pierre Labastie via blfs-support
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
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