Bug 220380

Summary:	the included microtype package is old and buggy
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Walter Neumann <neumann>
Component:	tetex	Assignee:	Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	5	CC:	pknirsch, triage
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Description Walter Neumann 2006-12-20 20:55:54 UTC

Description of problem: 
The microtype package included in tetex is version 1.6a from 02/02/05
which has known bugs. Current release is 1.9f of 2006/09/09

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
tetex-3.0-29.fc5


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run latex or pdflatex on a file that calls microtype
2.
3.
  
Actual results: Compilation usually aborts with message "Missing endcsname
inserted" and needs restarting. 


Expected results: Compilation should proceed with no error. More recent
microtype packages fix this.


Additional info: Current CTAN version of microtype is 1.9f of 2006/09/09 and it
fixes this problem (earlier versions also did)

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 05:18:42 UTC

Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

If you're currently running a version of Fedora Core between 1 and 6,
please note that Fedora no longer maintains these releases. We strongly
encourage you to upgrade to a current Fedora release. In order to
refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs
for releases which are no longer maintained and closing them.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle/EOL

If this bug is still open against Fedora Core 1 through 6, thirty days
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Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled
these issues to this point.

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We will be following the process here:
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Comment 2 Jindrich Novy 2008-04-05 10:58:09 UTC

The newer microtype should occur in F9 together with the TeXLive distribution
(tetex is obsoleted).

Considering FC5 is now EOL, closing WONTFIX.