Re: Your package musixtex might be broken by recent changes in teTeX
Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 17:50, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Therefore we suspect that there might be also other packages that have
>> similar problems which have been so far been undetected, and we ask all
>> maintainers to test their packages against the current tetex packages:
>>
>> - 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.
> 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; I would probably run into
disk space problems, and in the end I wouldn't have the time to inspect
all FTBFS cases in order to check whether they're tetex's fault.
> 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? Was it unstable or stable, which
versions of tetex did you use?
> Next time, this could help preventing mass mailing where I'm sure that
> many developers will just ignore it for the above reason.
That's a pity, but I simply don't have the ressources to do it myself.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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