Re: RFS: thailatex (orphaned package for babel-based Thai latex support)
On 4/26/06, Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
>
> I, too, took a look (texlive maintainer):
Many thanks. Changes updated.
> - You can remove postinst and postrm, the code in there is automatically
> generated by dh_installtex (update of the ls-r database, and calling
> updmap). The only reason one would have to use the original code is
> that it can be backported to woody (sarge already has tetex3).
> So I recommend to let dh_installtex generate all the necessary code.
> As there is no other code in postinst and postrm, you can actually
> remove it from the debian directory. It will be created by debhelper
> if necessary.
Oh, yes, I didn't notice the package.post{inst,rm}.debhelper
that are got generated. dh_installtex's manpage doesn't
mention this additional handling.
> - control:
> you could depend on tetex >= 3 as the misc:Depends pulls in tex-common
> via the dh_installtex, so this cannot work with tetex2.
I also failed to notice this. Thanks for pointing out.
> Furthermore, please consider adding an alternative dependency for
> texlive. I don't know exactely what you need from tetex-bin/base, but
> one option would be
> tetex-bin | texlive-base-bin, tetex-base | texlive-latex-base
> (no versions at all necessary as misc:depends brings tex-common)
Can I blindly add the dependency? How compatible is it
between tetex and texlive?
Hmm.. Maybe, getting texlive to try is a good idea.
How can I get it? It's not in sid, right?
Regards,
--
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
http://linux.thai.net/~thep/
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