Tagged: Debian

Debian/TeX Live 2015.20151116-1 3

Debian/TeX Live 2015.20151116-1

One month has passed since the big , and not one bug report concerning it did come in, that are good news. So here is a completely boring update with nothing more than the...

Debian/TeX Live multiarch update 1

Debian/TeX Live multiarch update

A big update of all related packages (tex-common 6.04, texlive-bin 2015.20150524.37493-7, texlive-base/lang/extra package 2015.20151016-1) due to the move to support multi-arch. Of course, the regular updates of the TeX Live are included, too. With...

Looking at the facts: Sarah Sharp’s crusade 70

Looking at the facts: Sarah Sharp’s crusade

Much has been written around the internet about this geeky kernel maintainer Sarah Sharp who left kernel development. I have now spent two hours reading through lkml posts, and want to summarize a few...

Debian/TeX Live 2015.20150917-1 1

Debian/TeX Live 2015.20150917-1

Usual regular update of the TeX Live packages. Now that Debian/unstable is back to full development speed thanks to the end of the bit gcc transition, probably this TeX Live update will be lost...

Plex Home Theater 1.4.1 updated for Debian/sid 10

Plex Home Theater 1.4.1 updated for Debian/sid

Debian/sid is going through a big restructuring with the switch to a new gcc and libstc++. Furthermore, libcec3 is now the default. So I have updated my PHT builds for Debian/sid to build and...

Debian/TeX Live complete update 2

Debian/TeX Live complete update

Triggered by all the bugs around I spent my weekend instead of mountaineering with crawling through the TeX Live history for changes and fixes to dvipdfm-x. Thanks to 角藤さん for his hints, I have...

Debian/TeX Live 2015.20150810-1 1

Debian/TeX Live 2015.20150810-1

For those who are starving for some updates while the big gcc5 transitions brings the rest of Debian/sid to a halt, here is some fresh meat, a new TeX Live checkout. Nothing spectacular new...

ePub editor Sigil landed in Debian 2

ePub editor Sigil landed in Debian

Long long time ago I wanted to have Sigil, an epub editor, to appear in Debian. There was a packaging wishlist bug from back in 2010 with intermittent activities. But thanks to concerted effort,...

Debian/TeX Live 2015.20150703-1 1

Debian/TeX Live 2015.20150703-1

The first upload of new packages after . Against my expectations, the bugs didn’t come in in the thousands, more or less there were only some fixes necessary in the binary package, which lead...

An amusing lintian error — Lenna 19

An amusing lintian error — Lenna

Well, there we are, trying to build another round of TeX Live packages for Debian, just to realize that the lintian error that should have been downgraded to warning (or removed) is still around,...

TeX Live 2015 hits Debian/unstable 3

TeX Live 2015 hits Debian/unstable

Here we go, I just uploaded 15 packages to the Debian archive that brings TeX Live in Debian up to the 2015 release (and a bit newer)! Uploaded packages are asymptote, biber, context, context-modules,...

Debian/TeX Live 2015 – the new layout 3

Debian/TeX Live 2015 – the new layout

While updating the TeX Live package for Debian for the upcoming 2015 release, one of my aims was to convert as much as possible of the TeX configuration infrastructure to use dpkg triggers. We...