Re: New upload of the teTeX packages
Adrian Bunk writes:
>
> > o Move to debhelper v3
> >
> > joeyh recommended this.
>
> There's one thing I hate in debhelper v3: You have to move the files for
> all packages (including the first one) out of debian/tmp and when you
> forget files they are in none of the packages.
What would debhelper v3 help or make easier for tetex?
> It would perhaps be more important if someone would work on using debconf.
What would you like to configure with debhelper?
> > o Added Japanese support to xdvi and dvips
> >
> > I'll talk about it in a separate mail.
>
> My personal opinion is that such changes should go to upstream first since
> I don't like it when the programs in Debian behave other than the programs
> upstream makes (and it makes it harder to send bugs upstream - you have to
> check if the bug exists in the original program, too) - but that's only my
> personal opinion.
Seconded. Upstream teTeX is a pretty good package and I don't want to
bring into it Debian specific patches as long as they are not security
related.
Christoph
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