Re: #257075, #248351, #284469

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 10.06.05 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Richard Lewis <rtf@jabble.com> wrote:

Hi all,

> > replacing several merged bugs with one summarising the problem might
> > be useful, and make the bts less cluttered.
> 
> That's a good point.  So maybe we should open a new bug (I think it's
> possible to have one bug with two packages attached),
> 
So I'll do so for #225004 and friends, OK?

 to which all
> discussions regarding splitting of tetex-base and tetex-bin are sent.
> But I wouldn't close the other ones; maybe we decide that some further
> splitting might be desirable, but that we won't do it for etch.
> 
> >> (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
> 
> The problem is that it _will_ be redownloaded, because the version
> numbers of all parts change if one subpackage is changed.
> 
> What will really be a relieve here is if we actually create a tex-common
> package.  This has been discussed with the TeX-Live people who want to
> create real Debian packages. The tex-common package would contain the
> common infrastructure: parts of texmf.d/, and especially the update-*
> scripts.  I hope this will safe quite some part of the downloading, at
> least for tetex-bin.  Maybe we should consider to create a tetex-common
> package which is built from the tex-common source (and thus does not
> trigger downloads of -base, -extra, or -bin when updated) and contains
> as much of the Debian-specific teTeX stuff as possible.  But that's a
> different issue - I think I should open a bug on this, too.
> 
> Regards, Frank
> -- 
> Frank Küster
> Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
> Debian Developer
> 

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