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Re: tetex-3.0 and the repackaging of the orig.tar.gz files



Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:

> On 29.11.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
>> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:
>
> Hi *,
>
> [ dpkg-source -x tetex-base_not-repackaged....dsc, you will get only
>   one new directory, tetex-base-$version. ]
[...]
> As Frank already contacted me privatly I'll try to answer now. I had
> just the beautiness (continuos changelogs instead of a beginning in
> the middle of nowhere). If that is too hard to achieve (and we'd have
> to reconvert the whole package as soon as there is a new teTeX
> release), I guess it might be a good idea not to repack the tar.gz
> every time. As the debian specific part stays the same I guess the
> only changelogs, which are lost are these below texmf.
> Ok, so get my vote: against repackaging.

Fine, then I'll use a real pristine, not repackaged orig.tar.gz for the
first import into the experimental branch. There are still some minor
glitches that I'd like to fix before importing.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer



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