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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427667
Summary: Review Request: xdvik - An X viewer for DVI files Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: medium Priority: medium Component: Package Review AssignedTo: nobody@fedoraproject.org ReportedBy: jonathan.underwood@gmail.com QAContact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: fedora-package-review@redhat.com,notting@redhat.com
Spec URL: http://jgu.fedorapeople.org/xdvik.spec SRPM URL: http://jgu.fedorapeople.org/xdvik-22.84.13-1.fc8.src.rpm Description: Xdvik, the kpathsea version of xdvi, is a previewer for DVI files produced e.g. by the TeX or troff typesetting systems.
Some background: Jindrich Novy's monumental and impressive texlive packaging effort includes xdvik since it is part of the TeXLive 2007 release. However, TeXLive isn't the upstream for xdvik, and Patrice Dumas posted a request on fedora-devel asking for people to volunteer standalone packages for components of texlive which have their own upstream. xdvik is such a package.
This package builds on F8, but still needs a fair bit of work, and is not yet review ready. However, I wanted to get it out in the open early to get feedback.
What I have done: * Sun Jan 6 2008 Jonathan G. Underwood jonathan.underwood@gmail.com - 22.84.13-1 - Initial package based on the texlive.spec by Jindrich Novy - Updated to latest upstream xdvik and Japanese xdvik - Reviewed all patches relating to xdvi in texlive.spec and cherry picked those that are still needed - Reworked the patch to allow building of xdvik and pxdvik
What still needs to be done: Currently this builds against the bundled kpathsea library sources in the tarball. We should be building against the kpathsea(-devel) packages instead. Lots of missing Requires and BuildRequires. Needs building in Mock for devel and rpmlint checking. And testing lots.