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Bug#223728: tetex-bin needn't depend on xlibs



From: frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)
Subject: Bug#223728: tetex-bin needn't depend on xlibs
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 18:57:35 +0100

> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:
> 
> > On 12.12.03 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, it has. The answer was "not for woody", but unfortunately
> >> since then nobody worked on it. I cannot judge whether we are again
> >> too near to a freeze. But at least we have a working patch now.
> >> 
> > IMHO we should start working on this ASAP. If it won't go into
> > testing until freeze due to RC-bugs we're out of luck but at least
> > we've closed that stuff in unstable.
> > As far as I understood the last messages from the d-i team we have
> > still a few weeks and the RC-bug count didn't drop that rapidly
> > either.
> 
> O.K. Let's go. What do the others think?

Hi all,

sorry for responding so late.  Recently, I'm a bit busy 
on works in my university (planning time table for next
examination and also time table for next semester etc.,
further I should check changes of Debian servers after 
compromise of the servers - I didn't know yet if I could 
CVS checkout tetex tree or not...)

I believe Michael's work is great, really great.  Only what
I'm not so sure is, is it really good to split X-related
stuffs into xdvi, texdoctk, and metafont-xterm-support ?

There is one big non-X teTeX package and there are three
(very small) X-related teTeX packages.

If this is a way to go then because we got #78926 which 
requested to split dvips out of tetex-* so we should do
split tetex-bin into some more small packages.

At present I feel that it might be better to provide something
like "tetex-bin-x" which include xdvi, texdoctk, and 
metafont-xterm-support but I'd like to hear from all of you
how you think of this.

Further if we adopt Michael's patch (or similar) in sarge
then I believe I need help of all of you in many way.  Are
you willing to do so?  I don't want to be a maintainer who
break teTeX packages of Debian ;)

Regards,		       2003-12-14(Sun)

-- 
 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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