Debian/TeX Live 2015 preparations

I have uploaded a preliminary version of the texlive-bin based on the 2015 sources (plus the first fixes) to the Debian archive, targeting experimental. As there are four new packages built from the sources (libtexlua52, -dev, libtexluajit2, -dev) the packages have to go through the NEW queue, which at the moment is an impressive 500+ entries long (nearly top in total history). But ftp-masters are currently very active and I hope they continue for some time.

Anyway, there are still many things to work out, especially a rework of tex-common for the new fmtutil, in the same way we did some time ago for updmap That also means that all packages shipping formats will need to be rebuild with the new tex-common. Fortunately there are not many additional formats shipped, I think all of them are under my control, so that should be easy.

For those who want to peak at the current packages, here they are compiled for amd64. Also available as apt-sources:

deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ exp/
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ exp/

WARNING Do not try to actually run these binaries unless you know what you are doing 😉

In case you have some spare time and bit of programming experience, the Debian TeX Team is looking for a bit of support in these days.