Bug#225004: tetex-extra: Type1 fonts should be in a separate package
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> On 11.02.04 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:
>> Hm. Ugly. One option would be to have a pseudo-package tetex-eurosym
>> that depends on both tetex-extra and tetex-extra-fonts. The other
>> would be to simply ignore this and only document in README.Debian that
>> the type1 fonts for eurosym are now in tetex-extra-fonts.
>>
> I prefer the latter. We can document it in the changelog.
Sounds reasonable.
>> This file should be named tetex-extra-fonts.copyright and be installed
>> as /usr/share/doc/tetex-extra-fonts/copyright.
>>
> Done. Still have problems with the changelog-file. I provide
> tetex-extra-type1.changes (tetex-extra-fonts was renamed to
> tetex-extra-type1) and install it as
> /usr/share/doc/tetex-extra-type1/changelog.gz . It has a Debianish
> style, but will be much more short than the changelog.Debian of the
> main package.
>
> <quote src=policy>
> If the package has only one changelog which is used both as the
> Debian changelog and the upstream one because there is no separate
> upstream maintainer then that changelog should usually be installed
> as /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz; if there is a separate
> upstream maintainer, but no upstream changelog, then the Debian
> changelog should still be called changelog.Debian.gz.
> </quote>
>
> Which of both cases apply?
I have asked on debian-mentors and received zero replies... I would
prefer to have only your changelog.gz without any upstream changelog. I
wouldn't want to bother xfree86 users with loads of TeX related
stuff. And it seems nobody regards this as really important. Well, if
someone does, he can file a bug report and start arguing.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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