[Bug 427667] New: Review Request: xdvik - An X viewer for DVI files

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           Summary: Review Request: xdvik - An X viewer for DVI files
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: nobody at fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: fedora-package-review at redhat.com,notting at redhat.com


Spec URL: http://jgu.fedorapeople.org/xdvik.spec
SRPM URL: http://jgu.fedorapeople.org/xdvik-22.84.13-1.fc8.src.rpm
Description: Xdvik, the kpathsea version of xdvi, is a previewer for DVI files
produced e.g. by the TeX or troff typesetting systems.

Some background: Jindrich Novy's monumental and impressive texlive packaging effort includes xdvik since it is part of the TeXLive 2007 release. However, TeXLive isn't the upstream for xdvik, and Patrice Dumas posted a request on fedora-devel asking for people to volunteer standalone packages for components of texlive which have their own upstream. xdvik is such a package.

This package builds on F8, but still needs a fair bit of work, and is not yet review ready. However, I wanted to get it out in the open early to get feedback.

What I have done:
* Sun Jan  6 2008 Jonathan G. Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> - 22.84.13-1
- Initial package based on the texlive.spec by Jindrich Novy
- Updated to latest upstream xdvik and Japanese xdvik 
- Reviewed all patches relating to xdvi in texlive.spec and cherry picked
  those that are still needed
- Reworked the patch to allow building of xdvik and pxdvik


What still needs to be done:
Currently this builds against the bundled kpathsea library sources in
the tarball. We should be building against the kpathsea(-devel) packages
instead. Lots of missing Requires and BuildRequires. Needs building in Mock
for devel and rpmlint checking. And testing lots.

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