Re: Bug#685822: Please rewrite package description
Christian T. Steigies wrote:
>> I read it as just claiming to provide fonts which are as good as
>> LaTeX fonts are (however good that is). It was only later that I
>> learned that it does this by actually using LaTeX.
>>
>> So shouldn't there be some sort of package dependency on LaTeX?
>
> As far as I understand, the fonts are included (in ascii format) in gle.
> They seem to have been generated from TeX fonts a long time ago. If they
> would be generated during every package build, there should be a dependence,
> but I don't think they need to be generated?
I'm not talking about a build-time dependency; I'm reading the bits in
the upstream description that seem to say it has a run-time dependency
("GLE relies on LaTeX for text output"). Is that true or not?
[...]
>> The phrase "both VAXes and PCs" was insanely dated even when this
>> software was first packaged for Debian in 2005.
>
> It was first packaged more than 5 years before that, but not uploaded since
> the copyright was unclear. In those days VAXes were still popular,
> collegues still use them to process data today. I wonder if they still use
> punchcards for the Voyagers?
(So there were still people around in the late nineties who thought
the world of computing could be evenly divided into "VAXes and PCs"?
I think you're getting your decades mixed up; the VAX product line was
pretty much doomed by 1990 and officially discontinued in 2000.)
[...]
>> Patch attached.
>
> thanks. Can this wait until wheezy is released? AFAIK we are in a freeze
> already.
In principle documentation/localisation updates can get past the
freeze, though I'm not sure about the details - maybe you'd just need
to tag the unblock request appropriately?
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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