Bug#796952: english language release notes pdf file is not english (https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes.en.pdf)

[Julien Cristau]

So, could this bug now be planned to be fixed in 8.4?

I forgot to add - even if we do *NOT* want to fix dvipdfmx, there is
an easy way around, do not use type1 but otf/ttf fonts.
I have advised this to the Russian reporter and done it myself
for all release notes. It is damned easy to choose a different font.

That sounds like a reasonable workaround to me. Even better if you can
provide a patch against the release notes, I'd happily apply that.

Thanks,
Julien

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Julien,

Post by Julien Cristau
That sounds like a reasonable workaround to me. Even better if you can
provide a patch against the release notes, I'd happily apply that.

Sure enough, can you please tell me where to get the sources that
are responsible for the build of the broken release notes on
Debian/stable?

I will send you a patch that tries to build proper release notes
on stable.

Norbert

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[Julien Cristau]

Post by Norbert Preining
Hi Julien,

Post by Julien Cristau
That sounds like a reasonable workaround to me. Even better if you can
provide a patch against the release notes, I'd happily apply that.

Sure enough, can you please tell me where to get the sources that
are responsible for the build of the broken release notes on
Debian/stable?

I guess it would be
svn://svn.debian.org/svn/ddp/manuals/branches/release-notes/jessie/Makefile
or somewhere around that.

Thanks,
Julien

[Julien Cristau]

Post by Norbert Preining
Hi Julien,

Post by Norbert Preining

Post by Julien Cristau
provide a patch against the release notes, I'd happily apply that.

Sure enough, can you please tell me where to get the sources that

Here we go.
There are several options - both boil down to changing the fonts to
opentype/truetype fonts. In all cases
--param=xetex.font='....some long code.....'
needs to be added to the Makefile around line 80.

Thanks! I've applied your variant2 patch and installed fonts-sil-charis
on www-master.

Cheers,
Julien

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Post by Julien Cristau

Post by Norbert Preining
Hi Julien,

Post by Norbert Preining

Post by Julien Cristau
provide a patch against the release notes, I'd happily apply that.

Sure enough, can you please tell me where to get the sources that

Here we go.
There are several options - both boil down to changing the fonts to
opentype/truetype fonts. In all cases
--param=xetex.font='....some long code.....'
needs to be added to the Makefile around line 80.

Thanks! I've applied your variant2 patch and installed fonts-sil-charis
on www-master.
Cheers,
Julien

Julien's commit fixed the problem for the jessie release-notes, so I close
all the relevant bugs with this mail.

Beside this, the same bug has to be fixed in the trunk branch of
release-notes as well, to make sure the problem does not re-occur after
the release of Stretch.
To keep track of this, and as a reminder, I have filed a new bugreport,
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815691


Holger

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and subject line Re: Bug#796952: english language release notes pdf file is not english (https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes.en.pdf)
has caused the Debian Bug report #799153,
regarding release-notes: title and chapters of english document are gibberish
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
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and subject line Re: Bug#796952: english language release notes pdf file is not english (https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes.en.pdf)
has caused the Debian Bug report #789356,
regarding PDF document's headings are gibberish ROT(-1)
to be marked as done.

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If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
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and subject line Re: Bug#796952: english language release notes pdf file is not english (https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes.en.pdf)
has caused the Debian Bug report #789356,
regarding release-notes: Titles in PDF versions are made of incorrect characters
to be marked as done.

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[Norbert Preining]

Hi Holger,

Post by Holger Wansing
Beside this, the same bug has to be fixed in the trunk branch of
release-notes as well, to make sure the problem does not re-occur after
the release of Stretch.

As I wrote in my last email, this is not the case in unstable or testing, as dvipdfmx has been fixed, as well as the font squeeze between gs fonts and TeX Live fonts has been resolved.

To repeat, there is no problem on Stretch, at least for the moment. Before release it would be a good idea to throw an eye onto one of the PDFs, though.

Norbert

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[Holger Wansing]

Hi Norbert,

Post by Norbert Preining
Hi Holger,

Post by Holger Wansing
Beside this, the same bug has to be fixed in the trunk branch of
release-notes as well, to make sure the problem does not re-occur after
the release of Stretch.

As I wrote in my last email, this is not the case in unstable or testing, as dvipdfmx has been fixed, as well as the font squeeze between gs fonts and TeX Live fonts has been resolved.
To repeat, there is no problem on Stretch, at least for the moment. Before release it would be a good idea to throw an eye onto one of the PDFs, though.

I got your point: there is no problem on testing and unstable.

But in that moment, when Stretch is getting stable, we have the same
situation again, where pdfs might be crippled:
the machine www- master, which builds the release-notes, is running
Jessie (at least for some months, until DSA has upgraded all machines
to Stretch), and when the release-notes trunk was not fixed before, the
pdfs are crippled again.

Thanks for your work !


Holger

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[Norbert Preining]

Hi Holger,

Post by Holger Wansing
the machine www- master, which builds the release-notes, is running
Jessie (at least for some months, until DSA has upgraded all machines
to Stretch), and when the release-notes trunk was not fixed before, the
pdfs are crippled again.

Ahhhhhh --- I see. Sorry for the noise, I didn't know about this.

Yes, in this case one needs to be careful after release.

Norbert

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