Packagename change: transfig->fig2dev

Packagename change: transfig->fig2dev

[Dr. Volker Zell]

Hi

There will be an upcoming name change for the current transfig package,
see the following mail excerpt from Thomas Loimer:

>   Please, find new upstream versions of xfig and fig2dev at
>        https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcj/files/xfig-3.2.6.tar.xz
>   and
>        https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcj/files/fig2dev-3.2.6.tar.xz
>   respectively. Note, that the name of the package transfig has been changed to
>   fig2dev. Users would not immediately know that the fig2dev program, which is in
>   most cases necessary when working with xfig, is contained in the transfig
>   package. Also, the transfig program itself is considered obsolete. It only
>   builds when enabled with the configure switch --enable-transfig.
>
>   The build process for xfig and fig2dev has been changed from imake to
>      ./configure; make; make install
>   or, with some ornaments
>      ./configure --disable-dependency-tracking
>      make -j; make check; make install-strip; make installcheck
>   I believe, there are no special flags necessary for building on cygwin. However,
>   for xfig you might want to check the --with-appdefaultdir, --with-icondir and
>   --with-applicationsdir options.
>
>   Changes to the previous version were mainly made in porting the code to autoconf
>   from the imake file. However, fig2dev now exports to tikz and pict2e, for use
>   with latex. Also, several bug fixes have been made.
>
>   Please report how compilation under cygwin fares.


Can somebody make me maintainer for the fig2dev package so that I can work on these ?
   
Thanks
  Volker
  

Re: Packagename change: transfig->fig2dev

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2016-08-26 10:41, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> There will be an upcoming name change for the current transfig package,
> see the following mail excerpt from Thomas Loimer:
[snip]
> Can somebody make me maintainer for the fig2dev package so that I can work on these ?

Done.  Just add OBSOLETES="transfig" to the fig2dev package; I've moved 
things around in preparation.

-- 
Yaakov