Bug#247046: The mesh of the catalan hyph file
A Dilluns 21 Juny 2004 13:51, Frank Küster va escriure:
> Leopold Palomo Avellaneda <lepalom@wol.es> schrieb:
> > Dear people,
> >
> > I write to ALL of you because I really don't know to solve a problem with
> > the catalan files for tex.
>
> No need to do this - Hilmar and I, and the debian-tetex-maint
> mailinglist get all mail send to the bugnumber. And Thomas need not be
> involved, too, because cahyph.tex is included in the upcoming release of
> 3.0 which he is currently preparing. So please take him out upon further
> replies.
Ok, done.
> > Now, at the end of june 2004, we still not have tetex-3.0, the catalan
> > users of debian tetex don't have the cahyph.tex file in the distro.
>
> Debian sarge will probably ship with tetex-2.0, at least if the voting
> on the General Resolutions regarding sarge release, that is currently
> done, ends as I expect.
I supposed it.
> > I don't understand why?. It's a simple text file, that acomplised all the
> > licence requeriments of debian.
>
> The problem is that we as Debian teTeX maintainers just take an upstream
> teTeX release and do the packaging, the integration into the Debian
> system, and a lot of user support. We usually cannot afford the time to
> add packages, files or whatever, because if we do it once, everybody
> would come and we'd probably have requests to package the complete CTAN
> in Debian's teTeX.
Ok, I understand. But I hope that you also understand me. The hyphenation
files are very important. The author changes the licence, so, no problem
could be. Maybe it's a good idea to package the complete CTAN ;-)
(it's a joke, I suppose that it could be crazy)
> > So, will we have in sid the catalan Hyphenation patterns soon, so it
> > could be be included in sarge, so we will have this file in the stable
> > version?
>
> The usual answer would be "no". However, I think in this case we can
> make an exception: We are about to prepare a new tarball for the source
> package. This is necessary because we still have some non-free files in
> the tarball of the source package (not in the *deb of the binary
> package). While doing this, we are planning to re-add some files that we
> removed from the original tarball because of bad licenses. And while
> we're at it, I think we can as well add hyphenation files that just
> happened to be removed in the 2.0.2 tarball by Thomas, but were there in
> 1.0 and will be in 3.0.
Thank's, that's a good new.
best regards,
Leo
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