APT source whitelist request for ppa:texlive-backports/ppa

[BanzaiMan]

This replaces travis-ci/travis-ci#4295.

The original text by @davidsan follows

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ppa:texlive-backports/ppa

This allows the installation of a more recent version of TeX Live in Ubuntu 12.04 container.

https://launchpad.net/~texlive-backports/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

[zbeekman]

I would love to see this added, as the current TeX support is ancient 👍

[SethTisue]

+1

[sbesson]

+1 for adding support for newer versions of Texlive on precise as well

[pdiegmann]

+1

[JelteF]

+1 I need a new version of Texlive to test my library PyLaTeX

[hongxuchen]

+1 for a XeLaTeX build.

[cscott]

+1, needed for mw-ocg-latexer, which Wikimedia uses to create PDFs.

[rayslava]

+1 to this ppa

[nna774]

👍 I need this ppa!

[SethTisue]

I'm now rather curious, actually, if there's something problematic about this request? (The few other whitelist requests I have made or +1'ed all happened promptly.)

[cscott]

Well, there are 132 open requests, and this PPA contains a rather staggering amount of stuff to review. (Even though most of the packages here are probably TeX-only files, the travis reviewer presumably needs to require the actual packaging to verify that nothing nasty is going on in the install scripts.)

[asr]

👍, needed for testing Agda documentation.

[asr]

Blocking agda/agda#1966.

[nomeata]

This is still needed (or a newer Ubuntu version in the container-based infrastructure).

[adrn]

+1

[asr]

FYI, by using The Trusty beta Build Environment you get the following versions:

$ latex --version
pdfTeX 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013/Debian)

$ xelatex --version
XeTeX 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.3-2014012222 (TeX Live 2013/Debian)

[raxod502]

I get mysterious compilation errors using the version of texlive I can get in the Trusty beta (and they disappear with TeX Live 2016). Please whitelist!