Re: #257075, #248351, #284469

[Richard Lewis <rtf@jabble.com>]

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> writes:

> Richard Lewis <rtf@jabble.com> wrote:
>
>> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> writes:

>>> I was proposing to close #225004 and related bugs and instead opening
>>> another one containig all the work put into it.

>> You could apply the same argument to the 'split tetex into smaller
>> bits' family
>
> Well, there is a difference.  In the "TeX fonts for X" case, the
> problem which the request was intended to fix is already fixed, while we
> still want to split off a teTeX-xfonts package.  The various problems
> that gave rise to the wish to split teTeX are not solved, are they?
>

replacing several merged bugs with one summarising the problem might
be useful, and make the bts less cluttered.

> (and some never will - one bug reporter complained that when tracking
> unstable he had to download a huge amount of data every time tetex-base
> is uploaded.  This will not stop if the package is split, unless he
> uninstalls most of it).

presumably (maybe?) after the split the package(s) holding the texmf
files will be fairly stable and wont need to be redownloaded after
every small change