Re: Some suggestions for the Debian tetex packages
Adrian Bunk writes:
> below are some suggestions for the Debian tetex packages I want your
> opinion on (and the opinion of others on debian-tetex-maint):
Sorry for the delay. I was on vacation.
> You are still listed as the maintainer of tetex-src. Is this intended or
> should the maintainer be changed to debian-tetex-maint?
Should be changed.
> To fulfill the copyright of some packages the new upstream version must be
> packaged. Do you want to do this or shall I do it?
Well, go ahead, if you like. If I manage to get some time to do it, I
let you know.
> It would be good if we update the standards version and especially add
> Build-Depends (e.g. the package libpng2-dev should be installed when
> compiling tetex-bin - configure finds only what is installed, so we should
> define what has to be installed when compiling).
Ok. Can you post a wishlist bug for that, so that it will no get
forgotten in the next release? Do you have a list of all the
builddepends? It should be mainly the same as in the Depends ..
> I have packaged texdoctk, a GUI for easier access of the teTeX
> documentation. Thomas Esser has placed this program upstream in the
> contrib directory of teTeX. Could tetex-doc suggest texdoctk?
Ok. Place a wishlist bug.
> I suggest to add the following dependencies to task-tex:
> Depends: catdvi, texdoctk
> Suggests: dvisvga, tetex-nonfree
We should think again about what should be in task-tex.
Christoph
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