Bug#145478: problems with multido.doc on CTAN

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> While we're on the way we could rewrite a little bit the package
> description.
>
> old:
> Description: teTeX texmf source files
>  This is teTeX (version 1.0), a TeX distribution for UNIX compatible
>  systems.
>  .
>  Source files for the texmf tree of the Debian teTeX distribution.
>  They are only here to meet the copyright requirements of some
>  tex packages.
>  .
>  You don't need to install them to have a running TeX system.
>
> proposal:
> Description: teTeX texmf source tree
>  This is a part of teTeX, a TeX distribution for UNIX compatible
>  systems.
>  .
>  These are the source files for the texmf tree of the Debian teTeX
>  distribution. The license of some packages requires to ship the
>  source texmf-tree together with the texmf-tree. Hereby we're meeting
>  this copyright requirement.
>  .
>  You don't need to install that package to have a running teTeX
>  system.

I'd add something like "..., but they might be useful for developers"
(because for many packages, the implementation documentation is not in
tetex-doc and must be produced from the dtx files in tetex-src)

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