Bug#240412: tetex-extra: revtex4 \pageheight and letterpaper bug

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

tags 240412 wontfix
thanks

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote, that's me:

> It's really worth a fix, however I doubt that we are the right people to
> do it. Both the Debian team and Thomas Esser have a hard job with
> packaging and updating teTeX as a distribution, assigning bugs to the
> right packages, contacting upstream authors etc. pp. 
[...]
> So in fact patching would mean that we are essentially taking over the
> package. This shouldn't be done by distributors who don't use the
> package themselves. Rather one or a group of active users of revtex
> should do this, 

Therefore I'm tagging this "wontfix"

> This brings us to the question of the license, and there's an other big
> problem. While in the file (revtex4.cls) it says that it is licensed
> under LPPL, the Catalogue states that revtex has a nosell license. 

I have contacted the Catalogue admins, and they have corrected their
license statement to what is said in the files. No problem here for
Debian.

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie