On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 11:22:04PM +0000, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
Hmmm, I just looked at build.opensuse.org and there are two maintainers for TeX Live, but when I go to their opensuse.org pages, TeX Live does not show up in their list of packages they contribute to. So has this package become stagnant? If it has, I volunteer for maintaining it. I used to work for the American Mathematical Society so I know Tex Live, and before that teTeX, plus have lots of software building and publishing experience. I know of a few people who contribute to TeX Live (or at least did). I am quite sure I can figure out OBS and how to get it up-to-date with newer TeX Live packages.
Tom
Hmmm ... as I'm the maintainer/bugowner of TeXLive I'd like to state that all binaries including asymptote and the perl for biber coming with the TeXLive version are build with the system libraries as well as with the perl version respectivly the compiler version, flags, and setup used for all packages for a distribution. Beside this all packages requiring TeXLive for build e.g. their documentation will be build with the TeXLive version from exactly this distribution. And this depends heavily on the availble libraries, compiler, and perl packages available for Leap. On the other hand the TeXLive from tug.org does not depend on those packages and libraries as those will be installed as well ignoring system libraries (key word LD_LIBRARY_PATH -> ld(1)), perl verison. as well as the compiler version, flags, and setup. In fact for TeXLive 2017 it had become very difficult to get biber to work with the old or missing perl packages. Also it had shown that many pacakges had to be adopted to build their documentation with the new TeXLive version. Nevertheless, every helper is welcome who has the time and is willingly to spend some time to get TeXLive 2017 working on Leap 42.3. Werner -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr