Hi Danai,Thanks for the helpful comments. I just posted some remarks on building the 2.10 PGF package to tex.sx. I'm also ccing the Debian wishlist bug on 2.10.
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2044/how-to-install-a-current-version-of-tikz/12589#12589I'm not entirely clear what to do with your comments below. Should I work on this package some more and upload it somewhere? Should I file bugs against the Debian package? Something else?
More comments below. On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) wrote:
Hi Faheem 2011/2/27 Faheem Mitha <faheem@email.unc.edu>:Ohura-san is planning an update, yes. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606128I see.Actually, I just built the package with a few minor changes to the 2.0 Debian packaging. Lintian reports the following errors/warnings. faheem@orwell:/usr/local/src/pgf$ lintian pgf_2.10-0_all.deb E: pgf: debian-revision-should-not-be-zero 2.10-0 W: pgf: doc-base-abstract-field-is-template pgf:6 W: pgf: executable-not-elf-or-script ./usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/math/pgfmathutil.code.tex W: pgf: executable-not-elf-or-script ./usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/math/pgfmathcalc.code.tex W: pgf: executable-not-elf-or-script ./usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/math/pgfmathparser.code.tex W: pgf: maintainer-script-empty preinst W: pgf: command-with-path-in-maintainer-script postinst:24 /usr/bin/mktexlsr W: pgf: maintainer-script-empty prerm W: pgf: command-with-path-in-maintainer-script postrm:25 /usr/bin/mktexlsr 2) The executable-not-elf-or-script presumably mean that these files shouldn't be executable? It is true that these three files under that directory are executable, but the rest aren't. Probably an unstream issue.If you build the package with something like a "get-orig-source" target, then you will always have this issue. You can add a "chmod -x" in the debian/rules, and later on ask upstream to remove the executable bit.
Ok. Just stick a chmod -x filename in the rules file?
3) debian-revision-should-not-be-zero refers to http://lintian.debian.org/tags/doc-base-abstract-field-is-template.htmlYou mean "doc-base-abstract-field-is-template" I presume.
Yes. Sorry.
I guess this refers to /usr/share/doc-base/pgf and specifically the description field. Ie. Document: pgf Title: User s Guide to the PGF Package, Version Author: Till Tantau <tantau@cs.tu-berlin.de> Abstract: This manual describes what pgf is and how it can be used to manage online manuals on Debian systems.That is indeed the default text and should be changed.Possibly the Title should be User's Guide to the PGF Package, Version 2.10 and the Abstract something like Abstract: Guide for usage of PGF and TikZ. Not sure what one should say here.You could add some attributes like how thorough and beautifully written the documentation is. That's one of the first things that impressed me when I looked at PGF and TikZ. Most documents are boring and technical, but this guide has a nice introduction, large reference material, etc. Add something that compels end users to download the manual.
It's true. The TikZ/PGF is most excellent, and PGF represents an improbable amount of high quality work.
How about Document: pgf Title: User s Guide to the PGF Package, Version Author: Till Tantau <tantau@cs.tu-berlin.de>Abstract: This is a comprehensive and high quality manual for PGF and TikZ, including several tutorials and a detailed reference. It discusses both the more accessible frontend subsystems such as TikZ, and more low-level and powerful functionality that may not be needed by the average user.
Section: Text(With feedback from http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends)
4) maintainer-script-empty preinst (ditto for prerm) refers to http://lintian.debian.org/tags/maintainer-script-empty.html So preinst and prerm should be removed?Yes.
Ok.
5) command-with-path-in-maintainer-script? This refers to http://lintian.debian.org/tags/command-with-path-in-maintainer-script.html. Should one just use mktexlsr then?Definitely. Sometimes you would want to have your own "mktexlsr" and therefore change the $PATH variable.
Ok.
I tried using the package and it seems to work ok.Nice.However texdoctk pgf does not work. Running just texdoctk and then searching for pgf brings up a window, but when I click on it I get an error. So I must have done something wrong here.I believe there was a discussion a long time ago about the differences between texdoc and texdoctk. texdoc is the one used by TeX Live; I don't know if texdoctk is still actively maintained, but was used with teTeX. Try "texdoc -s pgf" to get some results in a terminal.
Yes, texdoc works as you described. Is texdoctk supposed to work or not?
Regards, Faheem