Re: RFS: ITA: tex4ht -- LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext (HTML)
Dear Frank,
Thanks for the detailed response. This mail is a bit long please bear with
me.
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:20:32PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> I think you should include 1.3a and put a remark into the file
> explaining why. Furthermore, you should contact upstream and talk with
> him about a rewording of the sentence about program renaming: The
> exception from the old LPPL restrictions that he grants might already be
> covered by LPPL-1.3b, and he might want to use that wording or simply
> drop it.
I have amending the copyright file. Upstream author is using 1.3.
I will e-mail him regarding the precise form of the modification
restriction. This restriction also creates some trickiness for
/etc/tex4ht/tex4ht.env --- which is a conffile after all!
> * debian/changelog:
I have merged all the changelog entries into one.
> version - it's from the yearly "release", isn't it?. Also, the new
> version is called 1.0 - is there a reason for this?
I will make an enquiry with Eitan Gurari regarding this. Currently I have
reverted to the earlier versioning scheme with the upstream addition of
the time of modification as well.
> Please do not close such bugs in the changelog - see
Omitted. I clearly should have read developer's reference more carefully!
> - Your diff.gz contains quite some stuff that does not seem to be
> Debian-specific - e.g. temp/Makefile, manpages. If you or older Debian
> maintainers wrote it, was it submitted upstream? If not, where did
> you get it from?
The files were created by Andrew Gray (previous Debian maintainer). It is
unlikely that these will be used upstream as explained in README.src.
> To your Point 2: For me, the interesting reason for writing a Makefile
> to create the C code would not be to "verify" that it has indeed been
> created from the literate programming sources. Rather I'd be
> interested in being able to make changes. One could say that what you
> wrote is about fulfilling the wording of the DFSG, while what I want
> is to be able to use the freedom the spirit of the DFSG gives me. I
> suggest you adapt the wording.
I agree with you and have made the changes.
A much clearer (IMHO) version of README.src is in the newer version.
> As a solution for your third point you could simply use a sed script
> to replace the version date by the number found in the sources. Or you
> could try to fix the creation process - I'm sure there must be a way
> to do it with TeX. I might be able to help if you provide what you
> wrote so far.
What I have is not fit for publication but the shell script for converting
tex4ht-c.tex is enclosed. The result matches the existing file precisely
and should work for any modifications made to tex4ht-c.tex as well.
What I am planning to do is to provide a mechanism for someone who *makes
changes* to the files in /src to incorporate these into a new Debian
package.
> I'd prefer to have some information in the package about which other
> packages provide the /usr/bin/ht alternative.
There actually used to be a package called "ht". I have referred to the
relevant bug (#101220) in the postinst so that this can be changed if
necessary.
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 02:21:55PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> > Somehow off this list I got the URL where one can download the packages
> > you prepared.
>
> Which is
>
> http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/tex4ht/
I'm sorry. I just forgot to check that debian-mentor's was on the cc.
> By the way, did you incorporate the other bugfixes on this page, or are
> they already in the current version?
The current version incorporates all bugfixes over the last year. The
documentation typos have been fixed in my version.
> * Are you sure that it makes sense to install all the fonts in
> /usr/share/texmf/tex4ht/ht-fonts/? In particular, what is the purpose
> in having /usr/share/texmf/tex4ht/ht-fonts/win?
These fonts are used if one wants to generate an html file for
incorporation into MS Word. This is perhaps still not a good enough reason :)
Once again many thanks for your detailed suggestions.
Regards,
Kapil.
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