Broken TeXmacs interface with 5.9.3 in Debian sid.
Subject: Broken TeXmacs interface with 5.9.3 in Debian sid.
From: Andrey G. Grozin
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:18:12 +0700 (NOVST)
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote:
> During a perhaps rash "aptitude dist-upgrade" in my Debian box, I
> updated to the development version 5.9.3 of Maxima that is currently
> in Debian's unstable branch, replacing the previous release, whatever
> number it may have been, which mysteriously doesn't seem to have been
> moved to the testing branch (I use a mixed testing/unstable system,
> with testing preferred).
>
> This has had the result that now my TeXmacs interface is borked:
> "Unsupported version of maxima: 5.9.3". And it truly doesn't work; any
> attempt to get TeXmacs to generate Maxima output simply hangs forever,
> and I have to xkill TeXmacs. :-( TeXmacs is also the latest version
> fron Debian unstable, so updating it seems out of the question.
>
> Any fixes, preferrably Debian-style? I would prefer to not circumvent
> APT, since package management tends to get messier when you do.
> However, if you do have another fix which may not be Debiany, I'm open
> to it.
Support for maxima-5.9.3 had been included into TeXmacs-1.0.6.1, which
appeared quite some time ago (later versions of TeXmacs are OK, too). So,
the easiest way is to upgrade your TeXmacs (sorry, I have no idea which
Debian packages are available and where). Alternatively, it's very easy to
fix this by hand: 5.9.3 does not differ from 5.9.2 from the interfacing
point of view, so, adding 5.9.3 to tn_maxima and maxima_detect in a way
which is equivalent to 5.9.2 will do the trick. However, the maxima
interface in TeXmacs >=1.0.6.1 also contains some (minor) bug fixes and
extensions, so, upgrade is preferable.
Andrey