Re: Update of the package debian-history?

Hi,

tl;dr: failing build of fr pdf is likely due to #1076675 .

On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 05:20:46PM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 02:33:50PM +0200, Laura Arjona Reina wrote:
> > El 14/7/24 a las 18:22, Carsten Schoenert escribió:
> > > 
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1074052
> <snip>
> > 
> > The package debian-history is handled by the publicity team.
> <snip> 
> > But it needs to be uploaded to unstable so the website scripts get it from
> > there, unpack it and build the corresponding website pages.
> 
> I am working on https://salsa.debian.org/publicity-team/debian-history , in
> order to get the upcoming Debian 13 "trixie" release shipping a decently up to
> date version of that package.  The work should be finished before the end of
> this year, I guess.  (No dates have been picked yet for
> https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html#transition .)
> 
> Current uploaders Bdale Garbee, Osamu Aoki and/or Javier Fernández-Sanguino
> Peña: I took the liberty to add myself to Uploaders.  Is that OK with you?


> Also, our translations are out of date:
> 
> Since 2019, there has not been any update of
> 
>  es fr ja lt ru
> 
> . Since 2022, there has not been any update of
> 
>  it ko
> 
> .  Luckily, pretty much up to date are:
> 
>  de pt
> 
> .  See also https://i18n.debian.org/l10n-pkg-status/d/debian-history.html for
> some details.  I plan to contact the last translators and/or some relevant list
> & ask for updates there.  Or could I better not do that and do we have some
> automated infrastructure in place for such notifications?

> Third, and last:
> 
> For some reason, under current sid, with current package as in git,
> project-history.fr.pdf fails to build (all other translated .pdf's build fine).
> I'll keep working on fixing this; however, any help here would be very much
> appreciated.

Thanks to Paul Gevers and Petter Reinholdtsen I now know this is very
likely due to a bug in texlive-latex-base : https://bugs.debian.org/1076675 .
I'll wait for a while.

Bye,

Joost