Re: AucTeX

[Britton <fsblk@aurora.alaska.edu>]

On 7 Jan 1998, Davide G. M. Salvetti wrote:

> AucTeX is listed as orphaned in wnpp; I'm willing to take over its
> maintenance if nobody objects.

I think this might be because teTeX has now replaced AucTeX as the Debian
TeX/LaTeX distribution of choice.  Of course TeX/LaTeX is so darn
complicated I'm not really sure about this.  Btw, if you have ever managed
to make dvi files with ps images print right through magicfilter, I would
love to hear how you did it.

> 
> I'll be able to ship release 9.8i --- the latest one, I think --- in a few
> days; I guess I'm able to fix all outstanding bugs I am aware of.
> 
> I've a bunch of questions about this package which may well be just
> newbie's questions, so I'm carbon copying to debian-mentors as well:
> please, let's talk there about this if it isn't appropriate to
> debian-devel.
> 
> Questions:
> ----------
> 
> 1) AucTeX has many .el's which should be shipped byte-compiled: should I
> compile them with some specific Emacs flavor or doesn't it matter which
> Emacs I'll use?  (Please consider that, AFAIK, XEmacs comes with its own
> AucTeX, so AucTeX should probably care only about GNU/Emacs; I'm not sure,
> about that, though, mainly 'cause I don't use XEmacs :-).)
> 
> 2) Should I remove byte-compiled source files in the binary package in
> order to minimize its size?  (It's a matter of some 600k; current AucTeX
> package behaves this way.)
> 
> 3) Current AucTeX package puts its data (.elc's) in /usr/lib/emacs/common;
> should I put them in /usr/share/emacs/whatever_is_more_appropriate or
> something else instead?  (Please, consider FHS and FSSTND, and the fact
> many packages already put stuff in /usr/share.)
> 
> 4) AucTeX needs to periodically scan (La)TeX style files to keep itself in
> touch with what one has installed on his machine;  it does this by
> cron.weekly.  Current AucTeX package puts resulting files under /usr
> (precisely just where it puts its data: /usr/lib/emacs/common);  I believe
> I should put things under /var, instead: any comments, please?
> 
> 5) Current AucTeX package puts its configuration files directly under
> /etc/elisp: is this still good behavior?
> 
> 6) Current AucTeX package asks specific questions to the user in preinst
> (stead of postinst) under certain conditions (namely if the user has
> already installed some custom AucTeX version, or if he's upgrading from
> really old package versions): I think its really the right place to ask
> that and it does not go against policy (not all user are asked these
> questions, just the ones who have conflicting software installed), but I'd
> like to have some feedback from someone more experienced than me.
> (Obviously all of the other general questions that are necessary to ask are
> asked in postinst.)
> 
> Waiting for comments,
> 
> 


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