Bug 979448

Summary: bibexport duplicates texlive-bibexport
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Orion Poplawski <orion>
Component: texliveAssignee: Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: rawhideCC: jonathan.underwood, mjg, novyjindrich, pertusus, than
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: texlive-2014-13.20140525_r34255.fc23 texlive-2014-10.20140525_r34255.fc22 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 979180 Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-10-01 16:03:38 UTC Type: Bug
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Partial patch to the spec template and dependency engine none

Description Orion Poplawski 2013-06-28 15:02:06 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #979180 +++

Description of problem:

This appears to simply be an older version of the bibexport shipped in texlive-bibexport.  This package probably should be retired.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.10-9

--- Additional comment from Michael J Gruber on 2013-06-28 08:58:11 EDT ---

(In reply to Orion Poplawski from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> This appears to simply be an older version of the bibexport shipped in
> texlive-bibexport.  This package probably should be retired.

While that is certainly true, texlive didn't always ship bibexport if I remember correctly.

The proper course of action would be:

A) texlive-bibtex(-bin) provides compatibility link as /usr/bin/bibexport.sh (the former location of bibexport)

B) texlive-bibtex(-bin) provides "obsoletes" in spec (i.e. states that it obsoletes bibexport)

C) bibexport gets retired.

A,B can be done in one step, of course, and wpould need a new bug on which this one depends.

So, this should really be a bug report against the newer texlive-bibexport which duplicates the older bibexport, unless we decide to skip the usual A,B completely and jump right ahead to C.

Orion, have you cc'ed texlive-export people on this?

Comment 1 Fedora End Of Life 2013-09-16 14:17:40 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 20 development cycle.
Changing version to '20'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora20

Comment 2 Michael J Gruber 2013-11-05 10:15:46 UTC
Sooo, could the texlive package please obsolete bibexport if it duplicates that preexisting package (i.e. do A,B above)?

Thanks.

Comment 3 Michael J Gruber 2013-11-05 10:19:14 UTC
Note that in A,B, it should read "texlive-bibexport[-bin]", of course, and that f18 through rawhide are affected now.

Comment 4 Michael J Gruber 2013-11-05 14:23:28 UTC
Created attachment 819794 [details]
Partial patch to the spec template and dependency engine

Here's a partial patch demonstrating what I want to achieve. What's missing is a rerun of the spec building machinery.

It seems that texlive-bibexport already "provides" tex-bibexport (which I don't think ever existed". It should provide "bibexport" instead to ensure the proper upgrade path.

Package bibexport used to put "bibexport.sh" as a symlink into /usr/bin. The patch recreates that compat link, though I wouldn't mind breaking it and putting "bibexport" instead there, which would be more in line with other texlive packages. Upgrading users can find it by command completion.

Comment 5 Michael J Gruber 2015-03-05 14:27:19 UTC
Could maybe someone from the texlive team have a look at this and at least comment, please?

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Comment 8 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2015-08-11 05:31:50 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 9 Tom "spot" Callaway 2015-09-17 20:20:34 UTC
Yeah. Texlive has been rotting for a long long long time. I'm definitely going to apply this fix to rawhide, maybe do an f22/f23 update if I am brave enough.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2015-09-25 16:32:47 UTC
texlive-2014-13.20140525_r34255.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
$ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update texlive'
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-16620

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2015-09-27 00:38:35 UTC
texlive-2014-10.20140525_r34255.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
$ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update texlive'
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-16621

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2015-10-01 16:03:02 UTC
texlive-2014-13.20140525_r34255.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2015-10-03 21:13:14 UTC
texlive-2014-10.20140525_r34255.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.