Re: restore-symlinks, remove-bad-license-files etc.
On 16.04.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:
Hi all,
> > (1. and 2. about tetex-base, 3. about tetex-bin)
> >
> > 1. I had a look at debian/restore-symlinks. It sets during build a
> > symlink from to /usr/share/texmf/dvips/base/psfonts.map to
> > /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/psfonts.map. I'm wondering if we need,
> > that link. I tried dvips, dvipdfm and pdftex and nobody even touched
> > that file. We should remove it.
>
> The script blindly restores every symlink we deleted from the
> upstream tetex-texmf-...tar.gz. And I think for consistency, we
> should keep it.
>
OK.
> > 2. I tried to prepare a fix for #182324, by adding an entry to
> > debian/remove-bad-license-files. Unfortunately that script is
> > only called in the clean stage of debian/rules and nowhere else.
> > Is that intended?
>
> More or less, because if we can't distribute a file in the binary
> package, we also cannot distribute it in the source packages. It is
> kind of useless to call the script every time clean is run. It is
> useful, however, for upgrades and similar.
>
I just wanted psfig to be removed. At the time, when I submitted the
bug I wasn't aware of the nosell-license in psfig.sty. Hence that bug
is still wishlist.
> So if we want to fix this for tetex-2.0.2, we will have to create a
> new orig.tar.gz and fake a new version number 2.0.2, I guess.
>
I don't know if the license-issue is serious enough to justify doing
this.
> By the way, I don't know whether it is correct (and prudent) to
> mark epstopdf bugs as forwarded to Heiko. In fact there is no
> upstream development, and if there will be, it is likely that Heiko
> will be involved, but not really sure.
>
Heiko was the last one, who left a footstep in epstopdf. At this time
I didn't know, that the development stalled and there is no upstream.
In the beta version I found a mark from Peter Szabo, but he replied
that he's not the maintainer either.
Perhaps it's better to mark these bug notforwarded. There are still
#107258 and #170384. For the first one I don't have a patch, about
the latter one I'm not sure, if it is valid.
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