2016-01-04 0:43 GMT+01:00 Norbert Preining <prein...@logic.at>: > Hi Agustin, > >> For the records, this summer (30/7/15) I also mailed Joerg about >> current xindy status, but got no reply. My message might have been >> unnoticed and I have been rather busy lately, so I did not retry. > > I did contact m...@debian.org for a take over of the xindy package. > We can put it into collab-maint or into debian-tex, I don't mind > any of it.
Hi, Norbert, do as you prefer. By the way, when I prepared my two NMU I used a local git repo with some local commits. May be those commits can be of interest to preserve the history. >> I also reminded him about xindy still using dpatch and about the >> existence of newer upstream versions (up to 2.5.1). > > I first wanted to fix the current problems, then I will upgrade > to last version. FIne, I got newer versions from http://mirrors.ctan.org/indexing/xindy/base/, sf seems outdated. I first made the dpath->quilt migration and then upgraded first to 2.5.0 and then to 2.5.1. This is an extra work, but I wanted to preserve versions history. Later noticed some extra commits in texlive svn repo, but did not track them closely. Newer xindy versions made some changes in build system. I have to find my old git repo and make it available somewhere, at least to save some extra work. > Have you investigated whether using sbcl instead of clisp would work? > clisp is dead, and sbcl is much more reliable and portable. No. Just googled a bit and just found a message in the xindy-dev list commenting that it might require some work, but without reply from Joachim Schrod. Someone fluent with clisp and sbcl might however find it easier. I vaguely remember something about xindy needing ffi, but I think recent sbcl has it. > For those who are interested, here are preliminary packages > of xindy 2.5.1 from TeX Live sources 20150104 (today): > > deb http://www.preining.info/debian/ xindy main > deb-src http://www.preining.info/debian/ xindy main > > (amd64) > > If someone can give it some tests that would be great. Nice, will try to look at it once I find some time. Regards, -- Agustin
