Re: failing packages

[Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>]

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 <beffa@ieee.org> wrote:
> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> 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