From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32206 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context,gmane.linux.debian.devel.tetex Subject: Re: new debian context, upload to Debian Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:15:22 +0100 Message-ID: <4589C40A.80302@wxs.nl> References: <20061219180411.GC10246@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <4588F2CF.3080502@elvenkind.com> <20061220125304.GB2807@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <45893913.1000808@elvenkind.com> <20061220150131.GB13605@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166656561 21339 80.91.229.10 (20 Dec 2006 23:16:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:16:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Taco Hoekwater , debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Dec 21 00:15:59 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GxAf5-0004xV-Fh for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:15:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC9F200B2; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:14:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15670-02-3; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:14:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB48920081; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:14:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE3B0200A7 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:14:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15670-02-2 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:14:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id A97F120069 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:14:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 24105 for multiple; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:15:28 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20061220150131.GB13605@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:32206 gmane.linux.debian.devel.tetex:19929 Archived-At: Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mit, 20 Dez 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > >>> BTW, as you are also one of the luatex people, same problem exists for >>> luatex which I am also packaging. >>> >> Please, please don't do that. The snapshots are bug-ridden and totally >> experimental. In this stage, we much prefer having only testers that >> know how to deal with unstable software. >> > > I forgot to say: If you or the team have strong feelings *against* a > packaged version, even if it is accompanied by big warnings etc, let us > know, we can also forget about the packaging for now. > > taco's remark only concerns luatex binaries; these are on and off stable; for instance the new file io part is rather ok now, but currently taco is redoing much of the font part; somewhere mid 2007 there will be the first more or less beta version, and around tug 2007 there will be the first formal beta release; this means that upto then, checked in versions can be rather unstable; concerning context: we use context for torture testing luatex (related context code is versioned as 'mkiv code' but is not yet distributed) but this testing does not influence (much) the current context distribution (mkii code) so, no need to worry -) Hans -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------