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Re: Please test new tetex packages for woody



From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Subject: Re: Please test new tetex packages for woody
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 10:46:19 +0200 (CEST)

> > > I have prepared new tetex-base and tetex-bin packages for woody. The most
> > 
> > Thanks for your efforts, Adrian.  I only look through them roughly
> > yet but noticed several problems.
> 
> Thanks for your comments, below are my comments on them.
> 
> > >  tetex-base (1.0.2-2) unstable; urgency=high
> > 
> > You should remove txi-{cs,de,no}.tex which are duplicated with 
> > texinfo package.  This is Bug#65825 which you, Adrian, reported :)
> 
> These packages are mainly for fixing the "exit 1"-bug. 

I see, that is your basic standpoint.

> These packages are mainly for fixing the "exit 1"-bug. I did include some
> other small bug fixes, but in this case I wasn't sure how to fix it
> (can I simply remove these files without breaking anything?) and I can't
> see why these packages must fix this "normal" bug.

I think simply removing these files causes no problem but
it might be not so urgent problem.

> > I am not sure but it might be better to include 
> > doc/latex/koma-script/README, doc/latex/seminar/sem-read.me
> > as, for example, copyright.koma-script, copyright.seminar
> > because there are contradicting statements in other files.
> 
> In which files did you find the contradicting statements?

For example doc/latex/koma-script/readme.txt says

You are NOT ALLOWED to take money for the distribution or use of
either this file or a changed version, except for a nominal charge for
copying etc.

and seminar.sty itself says

%% You are NOT ALLOWED to take money for the distribution or use of
%% these files or modified versions or fragments thereof, except for
%% a nominal charge for copying etc.

Theses are corrected by doc/latex/koma-script/README and 
doc/latex/seminar/sem-read.me

Of course you can add some comments to README.Debian or so
if you think it more appropriate.

> > It might also be better to include "stmaryrd.dtx" which
> > you can find in teTeX-texmfsrc-1.0.1.tar.gz of CTAN site.
> >...
> > > however, AFAIK, stmaryrd.dtx is not included in any tetex-* packages.
> > > It is included in the original teTeX-texmfsrc.
> 
> I will ask Christoph in a mail if he wants to or if I can update
> tetex-src. He is listed as the maintainer of the package.

Okay, perhaps tetex-src is obsolete now and needs to be updated.

> > And at last but not at least, I think it is important
> > to fix 
> > 
> > From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
> > Subject: Bug#65961: tetex-base/tetex-nonfree: serious license problems
> > Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:16:18 +0100
> > 
> > but not only you but almost all staffs here seem to neglect(?)
> > this issue.  I am very glad if you test the script
> > and make tetex-base clean!
> >...
> 
> Same as above: I don't want to change anything if I'm not sure if it can
> break something.
> 
> > And also about this
> > 
> > >  tetex-bin (1.0.7-2) unstable; urgency=high
> > 
> > there is a security issue and I sent the following patch
> > a long time ago.  This is for 1.0.6 but it works well with
> > 1.0.7 like
> >...
> 
> Same as above, and I would prefer to send this bug report to upstream
> first.

I see that you try to fix the most fundamental bugs only.

I think Adrian's work is great and I would like to hear
the idear or opinion from others.

We should be more active! shouldn't we?

Best Regards,			2000.6.26

--
 Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.



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