Re: updated teTeX beta

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>
Subject: Re: updated teTeX beta
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:44:05 +0100

> > We can add any file if it becomes free but can't add a binary
> > file, for example *.dvi, even if it becomes free, I guess.
> 
> Why not?  Do you mean adding it to the .diff.gz?  If so, there are
> several obvious possibilities:
> 
> (i)   Add it to the non-pristing .orig.tar.gz

In case of my non-official packages, this is okay.  But
in case of official packages this is impossible unless
we increase the version number, I believe.

> (ii)  Add the .tex file to the .diff.gz and tex it during the build

Hmm, but then tetex-base needs tetex-bin (so tetex-base itself!)
to build the package, doesn't it ?

> (iii) Add a uuencoded version of the file to the .diff.gz and decode
>       it during the build

Yes this is okay. I'm not expert on UNIX so I didn't think
of using uuencode...

Anyway, it is possible to add binary files as you said.

Then, should we remove bad-license files (if any) from
.orig.tar.gz when we release next official tetex-* packages ?

Best regards,		     2002/10/11

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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