From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Federico Beffa Subject: Re: failing packages Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:20:07 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36754) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnTHF-0001oc-7e for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:20:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnTHE-00081b-6S for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:20:09 -0400 Received: from mail-vk0-x22e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c05::22e]:35207) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnTHE-00081I-2h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:20:08 -0400 Received: by vkha6 with SMTP id a6so83648480vkh.2 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 08:20:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: Guix-devel The problem appears to be with TeXLive 2015 and its 'dvips' command being unable to handle some .ps files: https://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2015-June/037013.html Could you please look into this? Thanks, Fede On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Federico Beffa wrote: > Andreas Enge writes: > >> On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 12:48:12PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: >>> chicken: >>> guix refresh -l chicken: no dependant packages. >>> Has not built successfully since early May. >>> x86_64: http://hydra.gnu.org/build/701776/nixlog/1 (~1900 lines) runtime tests >>> timed out >>> armhf: http://hydra.gnu.org/build/701673/nixlog/1 (~4300 lines) tests pass >>> (including runtime tests) until ports test >>> Error: (line 294) invalid escape-sequence '\x o' => Embedded NUL bytes in >>> filenames are rejected. >>> mips64el: http://hydra.gnu.org/build/699177/nixlog/1 same as arm >>> i686: http://hydra.gnu.org/build/698575/nixlog/1 same as x86_64 >> >> Should we simply drop this? Or would someone like to try an update to the >> most recent version 4.10.0? >> >>> fastcap: >>> fails on all hardware targets. >>> has not built successfully since August 1st. >> >> Does the software really date from 1992 as the filename suggests?! >> Here only the documentation does not build; maybe the fix-doc phase should >> be modified? Is anybody interested in the package, or should we drop it? > > Yes, the software dates 1992 and works great. Electromagnetism has not > changed since then. > > Why would you want to drop it? The documentation was broken by the > last texlive update, it didn't break by itself. It's just a matter to > fix some LaTeX macro. > > Dropping the documentation is a bad idea, because without it, you will > not know how to use this complex piece of software. > > I will look into fixing the documentation of this package. > > Regards, > Fede