Upgrade latex on docs.iad1.psf.io
JulienPalard opened this issue · 5 comments
I'm having build issues on docs.iad1.psf.io while french PDFs, but locals build are working. I spotted xelatex and babel are quite old on docs server:
For babel (in the texlive-latex-base package) I have 2018/05/02 3.20 The Babel package while docs.iad1 have 2013/12/03 3.9h The Babel package.
For XeTex:
- XeTeX 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.3-2014012222 (TeX Live 2013/Debian) does not work
- XeTeX 2018.20180505-1 works
- XeTeX 2016.20170123-5 works
- XeTex 2014* not tested
If it's easy, maybe upgrading them would help.
docs.iad1.psf.io is still Ubuntu 14.04, so we should be considering an upgrade in the near term (before April 2019).
In the meantime, if we can find a PPA providing a more up to date version it is straightforward.
Looks like it would help, we're also having a stack overflow in mendex, see python/docsbuild-scripts#52.
It may or may not be fixed in a more recent release, I'm currently testing it.
mendex 3.0 is not crashing, at least on my Debian, so the update would probably just fix this too.
I wonder if you can generate acceptable PDFs directly from HTML these days (epub?). It would be nice to drop the complex LaTeX toolchains.
@benjaminp I really don't know, and not willing to dive into PDF generation at the moment þ