Bug#204027: tetex-doc: Package doesn't include latex.ltx documentation

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Algis Rudys <arudys@rice.edu> schrieb:

> Package: tetex-doc
> Version: 2.0.2-4.1
> Severity: minor
>
> Greetings --
>
> File latex.ltx in tetex-base has had its comments stripped, which is
> fine, except that now the only way to get at them is to get the source
> of tetex, and look at the original .dtx files.
>
> Could you generate the documentation from these files or at least
> include the .dtx files into the tetex-doc package.  At issue are the
> files lt*.dtx under latex/base in the tetex-src archive.

Looking at the list archives vor debian-tetex-maint, I found some
discussions about further or different splitting of tetex in Debian,
mostly just before woody was released. But it seems the discussion was
dropped without coming to a conclusion.

I think that issues like this bug should be considered in the context of
this discussion, there were the words "unless we have a reasonable,
good, global design." There are also license issues connected to that. 

Maybe I missed something in the archives: Is there a common opinion
among tetex maintainers about the parts tetex should be split into?

Bye, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie