Bug 1785439

(In reply to Leon Fauster from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> There exits texlive-babel-english but no texlive-babel-german.
> 
> Please consider adding german language support to texlive in RHEL8.x.
> 
> Our TeX workflow needs at least:
> 
> texlive-babel-german - Babel support for documents written in German
> texlive-german - Support for German typography
> texlive-germbib - German variants of standard BibTeX styles
> texlive-nomencl - Produce lists of symbols as in nomenclature

we don't want to add this support into rhel-8.x but consider adding it to texlive-extention in EPEL8.

(In reply to Leon Fauster from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> There exits texlive-babel-english but no texlive-babel-german.
> 
> Please consider adding german language support to texlive in RHEL8.x.
> 
> Our TeX workflow needs at least:
> 
> texlive-babel-german - Babel support for documents written in German
> texlive-german - Support for German typography
> texlive-germbib - German variants of standard BibTeX styles
> texlive-nomencl - Produce lists of symbols as in nomenclature

i uploaded the above rpm packages on https://than.fedorapeople.org/epel8/texlive/
Could you please download and test if it works for you?

The above packages are parts of texlive-extention which will be available in epel8 repo soon.

Thanks

The german language support for texlive is added in epel8. You have to enable the epel8 repo for downloading the rpms.

  https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-e7138474cf

Hi Than, I am back from holidays and got my hands on this now. I tested the packages in epel-testing and it looks pretty good. 
Thank you very much for your effort providing a texlive-extension package set in EPEL8! - So, could be pushed into epel repo?

While testing I noticed that a used tool in our workflow (/usr/bin/lacheck) that is in RHEL6 packaged in the texlive-latex rpm package, is missed in the RHEL8's texlive-latex package.

I wonder how to make requests to extend the texlive-extension package set? In particular we are interested in:

http://ctan.math.illinois.edu/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/lacheck.tar.xz
http://ctan.math.illinois.edu/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/chktex.tar.xz

In Fedora they are packaged separately (texlive-lacheck, texlive-chktex). So generally which way to go; separate rpms and bugzilla requests or everything in texlive-extension?

(In reply to Leon Fauster from comment #4)
> Hi Than, I am back from holidays and got my hands on this now. I tested the
> packages in epel-testing and it looks pretty good. 
> Thank you very much for your effort providing a texlive-extension package
> set in EPEL8! - So, could be pushed into epel repo?
> 

it's available in epel8 testing repo and already pushed into epel8 repo yesterday. it could take a couple of days before it's visible in repl8 repo.

> While testing I noticed that a used tool in our workflow (/usr/bin/lacheck)
> that is in RHEL6 packaged in the texlive-latex rpm package, is missed in the
> RHEL8's texlive-latex package.
> 
> I wonder how to make requests to extend the texlive-extension package set?
> In particular we are interested in:
> 
> http://ctan.math.illinois.edu/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/lacheck.tar.xz
> http://ctan.math.illinois.edu/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/chktex.tar.xz
> 
> In Fedora they are packaged separately (texlive-lacheck, texlive-chktex). So
> generally which way to go; separate rpms and bugzilla requests or everything
> in texlive-extension?


there's texlive-extension component in bugzilla, if you want to make requests like above, please open the bug in texlive-extension and add your requests there.


Thanks

Thanks for packaging lacheck and chktex! I really appreciate your help.