Norbert Preining

KDE and the Plasma Desktop provide one of the premier desktop environments for the Linux desktop. We report on the state of KDE/Plasma in Debian, which has considerably improved over the last year, and now provides the most uptodate packages of the KDE frameworks, the Plasma desktop, and the KDE Gears selection of programs. On the personal side, we will report shortly on our journey from Gnome to Cinnamon and finally KDE/Plasma, which gives interesting insights into a wide range of desktop environments.

The support for typesetting Japanese (or any CJK language) in TeX in particular TeX Live, has been considerably improving over the last few years. From practical non-existence 10 years ago where every Japanese TeX user was used to download and compile packages (pteTeX, pTeXLive) to a simple `apt-get install texlive-lang-japanese` was a long way. In this talk we recall a bit of the history of Japanese TeX in (Debian) TeX Live and give an introduction to the particularities of Japanese typographic rules and how they are implemented in TeX. We will shortly touch on how to typeset multilingual CJK documents in TeX using upTeX and LuaTeX, and report on the current state of CJK font support in TeX concerning free and commercial fonts.

We present our work towards representing Debian's packages, including history and releases, as well as other components of the Debian environment, in a Graph Database. The Ultimate Debian Database [UDD](https://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase/) collects a variety of data around Debian and Ubuntu: Packages and sources, bugs, history of uploads, just to name a few. The database scheme reveals a highly de-normalized [RDB](https://udd.debian.org/schema/). In this on-going work we extract (some) data from UDD and represent it as a graph database. The presentation will give a short introduction on the life time and structure of Debian packages, followed with the graph database scheme (nodes and relations). After going through some of the queries used on the UDD web pages we will show how they can be translated to Cypher. We close with an outlook of our future plans and open problems.

The TeX environment has grown slowly but steadily to a huge collection of programs, fonts, macro packages, support packages. Current TeX Live ships about 2Gb in more than 2000 different "TeX Live packages". As teTeX stopped to be developped and supported several years ago, TeX Live has taken over as the main TeX distribution in practical all areas, not only on Unix, but also Mac (MacTeX is based on TeX Live) and is also gaining on Windows (where MikTeX is still strong).

Integrating TeX Live into any distribution is a non-trivial task due to big amount of post installation tasks that have to be performed. Although over the last years the quality of packages has improved, we (TeX Live development list) still get often bug reports that stem from incorrect packaging.

This talk presents in an overview the structure of TeX Live and the list of important and special configuration files. Furthermore, base on the experience of packaging TeX Live over many years, we will give advise and best practice examples. The talk is targetted not only at Debian, but at any distribution that redistributes TeX Live in one way or another.