New Debian TeX Live binaries uploaded
Yesterday I have uploaded a new set of TeX Live binaries (source package texlive-bin) to the Debian archive. The version number is 2013.20130729.30972-2. While that looks like a small step (from -1 to -2), it contains a bunch of fixes:
- mendex (Japanese makeindex): fix for a bug when range ops and macros are used together. It took me quite some time to find this bug hidden in the C code. The patch will also be included upstream in TeX Live. At the same time I fixes several possible security issues by replacing
sprintfwithsnprintfto avoid buffer overflows. (Debian bug #534641) - xdvi: reinstatiate the perl wrapper that was used back in 2005 or so, which allowed opening of compressed dvi files (Debian bugs #631271, #583188)
- lots of fixes pulled from upstream svn for luatex, dvipdfmx, pdftex, and dvips
- fix some man page typos and formatting errors (Debian bugs #662846, #664961, #667981)
That brings the current TeX Live binaries on par with what I am shipping in the tlptexlive repository and allows Japanese TeX users to take full advantage of the fixes.
