Re: texinfo/info packages and TeX live
On Don, 18 Aug 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
> > * sources based on TeX live source, version 4.8
> > (Closes: #320413, #181793, #205022, #204202, #221988, #261742, #277754)
>
> I'd write something here that indicates that this doesn't mean that
> the code has been forked, but rather that texlive took it from
> texinfo upstream (or Karl pushed it to texlive), and you sliced it
> out of the big source tarball.
In fact it should be based on the original source code. But in texlive
there are some further changes (at least I thought that)
> > * make postinst script POSIX, don't use command (Closes: #293053)
> > * fix de.po, thanks Jens Seidel (Closes: #313844)
> > * uses new tex-common and install fmtutil-config files (Closes: #253124)
> > * install install-info as ginstall-info (Closes: #285983)
>
> * bumped Standards-Version to 3.6.2.1 (...changes...)
>
> - The package FTBFS. It asks a question
> intarctively:
Grmm, I thought I have fixed this before doing the last run. Strange.
> touch stamp-po
> mv: overwrite `stamp-po', overriding mode 0444?
What the hack. I will remove stamp-po in the clean target.
> - why are the files moved from /usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo to its
> subdirectory base, in debian/rules?
Hmm, wanting to have order. At least in texlive it is like this that
way:
progname/base contains the base files
progname/config configuration stuff (like .ini files etc)
> I've also compared the debs with debdiff, the changes are only those
> intended to fix bugs.
Good.
Best wishes
Norbert
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