From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Federico Beffa Subject: Re: failing packages Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 18:18:36 +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]:53081) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnUBq-0004BN-Kh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 12:18:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnUBp-0001yD-3o for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 12:18:38 -0400 Received: from mail-vk0-x236.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c05::236]:33399) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnUBo-0001y8-VB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 12:18:37 -0400 Received: by vkaw128 with SMTP id w128so84071456vka.0 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 09:18:36 -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 Looking further: A macro was removed from TeXLive 2015 because of a license problem. I've pushed a fix to generate the fastcap documentation using a different macro. Regards, Fede On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Federico Beffa wrote: > 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