Bug#170382: acknowledged by developer (Bug#170382: fixed in tetex-base 1.0.2+20021025-4)
From: Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#170382: acknowledged by developer (Bug#170382: fixed in tetex-base 1.0.2+20021025-4)
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 10:58:57 +0100
> > # Hmm, I'm not sure but it might be realistic solution to
> > # request packages, e.g. koma-script or perl-tk, etc
> > # which can work and coexist only with tetex-bin and tetex-base.
>
> Interesting idea, it might also solve at least some of my problems with
> the upgrade to the latest tetex packages. Maybe it would solve them
> completely.
I believe this might be only realistic, possible solution.
> Well, I don't hink so. Considering that only the files above are
> belonging to texdoctk, I think they can be safely put in one package, if
> they aren't very big. I fail to see why you want to create two packages,
> -bin and -base.
Well, tetex-bin is built from teTeX-src and tetex-base/extra
is built from teTeX-texmf, i.e. original soures are different.
> Well, maybe this question should be discussed in a more public manner to
> see what other developers think about the issue. I've no idea of the
> majority of them is happy with the current three packages or not. But if
> the majority is preferring to keep them, I'm going to shut up and look
> for other solutions to my problem.
In short, we recognized the desire that tetex should be
splitted in small packages but to provide normally functional
TeX system is already a hard task for us (please see overwhelmingly
many bugs on tetex) and we have not enough time (and maintainers)
to try reconstruction because it would be very dangerous, i.e.
it might break basic functionality of TeX system.
Thanks for your interest on tetex.
Best regards, 2003.1.9(Thu)
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Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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