Uploading fop 1.0 to experimental

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le jeudi 19 août 2010 à 10:19 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit :
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org> wrote:
> > Le samedi 17 juillet 2010 à 22:58 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit :
> >> Dear package maintainer,
> >>
> >> I have uploaded fop 1.0 to experimental:
> >>
> >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fop/news/20100717T204721Z.html
> >>
> >> I did not make xmlgraphics-commons 1.4 a requirement, the package is
> >> available on mentors (I am a DM so I cannot upload xmlgraphics-commons
> >> to experimental):
> >>
> >> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xmlgraphics-commons/
> >>
> >> Please test if you can, and please do report any issue you may find.
> > Upstream developer of jlatexmath (C/C of this email) reported some
> > issues with the version 1.0 of FOP.
> > He says [1] that this release has some issues with the font management
> > and the way to render images.
> >
> > jeuclid builds against this version but I haven't been able to test for
> > now. I will contact upstream about this.
> 
> Sylvestre, did you made any progress on that ?
I contacted him but I didn't get any answer.
The future release, at least for now, does not seem to include the
migration to fop 1.0:
http://jeuclid.sourceforge.net/changes-report.html

> BTW since debian is in freeze, is it too late to upload fop 1.0 to unstable ?
It is indeed too late. It has too many reverse dependencies to try this
migration for squeeze.

Sylvestre