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Re: Your package musixtex might be broken by recent changes in teTeX



Hi,

On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 10:55, Frank Küster wrote:
> >> - Do they still build?
> >> - Can they still be installed?
> >> - Do they still work?
> >
> > When you go through the hassles of automated mass mailing the respective
> > maintainers, 
> 
> That wasn't hard.

Maybe no hassles for you, but for the respective maintainers.

> > why not try it first yourself? At least the first two
> > points can be automated easily, e.g. with pbuilder.
> 
> It may be easy, in the sense that it's a no-brainer. But I have slow
> computer and not really the time to do it; [...]

Today, CPU time is cheap while developer time isn't.

> > Recently, I (re-)built the whole archive with pbuilder on my machine and
> > didn't notice a problem with one of my packages. The same can be done
> > with installing packages.
> 
> Did you notice any other FTBFS cases (that is, in other packages that
> yours) that might be related to tetex?

I don't remember tetex-specific problems, but I filed all bugs in
question, so no issue will be lost.

>  Was it unstable or stable, which versions of tetex did you use?

Unstable, daily-current, building for 2 weeks in the mid of August.

bye,
  Roland



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