On 05 Mar 2006 12:03:00 +0100 Claus Färber wrote:
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> schrieb/wrote:
> > The reason for this is that building (La)TeX documentation
> >
> > * depends on the right number and order of commands to be
> > executed,
> > which one has to find by trial and error (it's very rare that
> > authors upload Makefiles, since usually they aren't needed much)
> >
> > * depends on settings in local configuration files, which may
> > differ
> > from package author to package author and from version to
> > version.
>
> In other words, there is no _complete_ source code for the compiled
> version of the documentation, which violates DFSG #2 (even without the
> font issue).
Well, it seems so...
If it is really so difficult to figure out how to rebuild, even for
knowledgeable people, then, yes, something is missing.
And that is really unfortunate.
It should be fixed:
a) either by asking upstream for the extra info
b) or by rebuilding in a reasonable way *and* providing info about that
reasonable way
--
:-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-)
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