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Jakub Wilk | 1 Aug 2009 12:02

Bug#539482: texlive-base-bin: bibtex should use the alternatives system

Package: texlive-base-bin
Version: 2007.dfsg.2-6
Severity: wishlist

There are currently at least 2 working bibtex implementations in Debian, 
i.e. nbibtex and TeX Live's one, and there's going to be more (see 
bugs #412085, #535116).

Therefore, I believe it would be a good idea for TeX Live's bibtex to 
start using the Debian alternatives system, so that other 
implementations could be made available under the /usr/bin/bibtex and 
/usr/share/man/man1/bibtex.1.gz names.

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Hilmar Preusse | 1 Aug 2009 19:06
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Bug#539368: etch: texlive-latex-base no longer installs

On 31.07.09 noreply <at> example.com (noreply <at> example.com) wrote:

Hi,

> > Address is probaly not reply-able. Testing anyway.
> 
> ??? Im getting updates on the bugreport with a different method.
> 
> Reported the bug because bind9 build-depends on texlive-latex-base
> which fails to install because of the mentioned problem.
> 
I merged yolur bug with the other bug we got recently. The fix is
already in oldstable-proposed-updates
(http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/oldstable-proposed-updates/),
however I can't tell you, when it will be available in general.

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Vincent Danjean | 2 Aug 2009 01:11
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Bug#539482: texlive-base-bin: bibtex should use the alternatives system

Jakub Wilk wrote:
> There are currently at least 2 working bibtex implementations in Debian,
> i.e. nbibtex and TeX Live's one, and there's going to be more (see bugs
> #412085, #535116).
> 
> Therefore, I believe it would be a good idea for TeX Live's bibtex to
> start using the Debian alternatives system, so that other
> implementations could be made available under the /usr/bin/bibtex and
> /usr/share/man/man1/bibtex.1.gz names.

Does all the bibtex implementations have the same interface (ie the same
command-line options) ?
It is required if want to be able to use alternatives.

  Regards
    Vincent
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Jakub Wilk | 2 Aug 2009 14:34

Bug#539482: texlive-base-bin: bibtex should use the alternatives system

* Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml <at> free.fr>, 2009-08-02, 01:11:
>> There are currently at least 2 working bibtex implementations in Debian,
>> i.e. nbibtex and TeX Live's one, and there's going to be more (see bugs
>> #412085, #535116).
>>
>> Therefore, I believe it would be a good idea for TeX Live's bibtex to
>> start using the Debian alternatives system, so that other
>> implementations could be made available under the /usr/bin/bibtex and
>> /usr/share/man/man1/bibtex.1.gz names.
>
>Does all the bibtex implementations have the same interface (ie the same
>command-line options) ?
>It is required if want to be able to use alternatives.

All the implementations accept the most basic syntax, i.e.:

     bibtex AUXFILE[.aux]

nbibtex supports the -min-crossref=N, -help and -version, but not -terse.
Unfortunately, other implementations support none of these options. 
However, if you believe that it is essential to have all of them 
implemented (I don't think it's necessary), I am willing to contribute
patches for pybtex and (possibly) pybliographer.

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Hilmar Preusse | 3 Aug 2009 09:43
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Re: SVN texlive (2009) commit: r4114 - in texlive2009/trunk: all/debian texlive-bin/debian

On 27.07.09 ???????? ???????????????? (aelmahmoudy <at> users.sourceforge.net) wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:03:40AM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> > On 26.07.09 Ahmed El-Mahmoudy (aelmahmoudy-guest <at> alioth.debian.org) wrote:

Hi,

> > > texlive-bin/debian/rules & all/debian/rules.in: use
> > > /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make provided by quilt and remove
> > > patch-stamp & unpatch targets (Closes: #538571).
> > > 
> > Is this a typo and you really think of #538557 ?
> 
> It's a copy/paste error ! And no, it doesn't close #538557.
> 
As #538557 does not belong to TL at all, I've deleted that bug # from
the TeX Live changelog.

Hope this was correct.

Thanks,
  Hilmar
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Hilmar Preuße | 3 Aug 2009 09:42
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SVN texlive (2009) commit: r4119 - texlive2009/trunk/texlive-bin/debian

Author: hilmar-guest
Date: 2009-08-03 07:42:48 +0000 (Mon, 03 Aug 2009)
New Revision: 4119

Modified:
   texlive2009/trunk/texlive-bin/debian/changelog
Log:
#538571 does not belong to TeX Live

[For the full diff, use svn diff.]

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Frank Küster | 6 Aug 2009 16:30
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TL2009 development, upstream syncing?

Hi,

well, I cannot promise to do much work on the packages, and I won't save
the December freeze (if it happens after all the discussions, I don't
care much about it. Also won't make uploads of TL2007 for its RC bugs,
let the release team do that).

But still, I wonder how we should coordinate with upstream
development. It seems to me that the next step of Debian packaging would
be to work on the file conflicts, adding Replaces: for moved files.  

Norbert, do you expect considerable changes of collection contents in
TL2009 in the next months? Does it therefore make sense to create new
upstream versions often? Or can we take the easy way and just work on
the current upstream tarballs, updating only after the upgrade from 2007
goes smoothly?

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Debian Bug Tracking System | 6 Aug 2009 16:33
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Processed: Re: Bug#539798: texlive: please suggest -doc packages

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