Re: RFS [2]: math input formatter for pidgin (pidgintex), general math formatter tool (mathtex)

[Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@imsc.res.in>]

Hello,

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Johan Henriksson wrote:
> Johan Henriksson wrote:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509601
> > http://mahogny.areta.org/temp/debs/
> >
> > Source: pidgintex
> > Section: net
> > Priority: optional
> > Maintainer: Johan Henriksson <mahogny@areta.org>
> > Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), pidgin-dev
> > Standards-Version: 3.8.0
> > Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/pidgintex/

I see that your package has not been sponsored as yet. As I do not
use pidgin (though I use TeX) I am not yet sure that I will sponsor
your package eventually. In any case here are some preliminary comments:

- debian/copyright information is at odds with pidginTeX.[ch]
- FSF address in those files is wrong
- debian/copyright needs state the license more clearly than a bald "GPL 2.0"
- spurious change in upstream Makefile (blank line added)
- there are some other mini-tex converters like texgd, will the
  package work with those?
- is it LaTeX only or does it work with plain TeX.

The last two questions could be addressed in a README.Debian or if
possible in the package description.

I may return to examine this package this evening with some more
comments.

Kapil.
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