Re: LaTeX escaping in 1.4

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Robert J. Clay <..hidden..> wrote:

Chris,

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Chris Travers <..hidden..> wrote:
> I am looking into LaTeX escaping in 1.4. There is a CPAN module that
> handles this but it doesn't seem to work without patching. The module is
> LaTeX::Encode.

What kind of patch does it need? And is there already a cpan bug for it?

The issue is scoping. It uses strict mode and variables in LaTeX::Encode::EncodingTable without declaring them first. I sent the author a patch which effectively copied three variables from the latter namespace since these seem pretty static.

> I would like to propose that for 1.4, unless this is resolved and tested in
> both Debian repo versions

Note that 0.08-2 is the current version of it in Debian Testing and
Unstable; includes a patch for a FTBFS (Fails To Build From Source)
POD issue...

You can test easily.

perl -MLaTeX::Encode -e print

if it fails to load the library, it needs to be patched.

Best wishes,

Chris Travers

> and the main CPAN distribution point, that we ship
> a patched version of the code that we maintain.

> Any objection?

From the viewpoint of the Debian packaging; yes. (Debian policy is
against it...) OTOH; it would be relatively easy to add a patch to
the package in Debian for it, especially if there is already a cpan
bug for the issue and that bug has still not been resolved by the time
it's needed for the changes you have in mind.

Jame

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