Re: new cm-super and cm-super-x11
Hi Frank, hi Hilmar!
On Don, 06 Okt 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
> > No. The pfb2t1c and t1c2pfb is introduced by the diff.gz. These
> > program were written by the package Peter Szabo.
>
> But they are on CTAN, in a Debian subdirectory. Surely the CTAN masters
> have asked the cm-super maintainers whether this location is in order?
> And now it's there.
This is not true, Hilmar. They are NOT introduced in the diff.gz, but
they are present in the .orig.tar.gz AS DOWNLOADED from CTAN!
Frank is right. The problem is that the `upstream' cm-super from CTAN
already contains a very very very old debian subdirectory which I don't
know why is still there.
> > Advantage: we don't introduce another source package
> > Disadvantage: to build pfb2t1c2pfb one need to download the 60MB
> > tarball of cm-super (just to get these 2 C-Files).
>
> That's a point. cm-super is Architecture: all, but the buildd's would
> have to download the big source of cm-super just to compile two tiny C
> programs.
>
> > I'm still a little bit more for a separate pfb2t1c2pfb, as it is not
> > really related to cm-super.
>
> That's an other valid point. Still it might be a good idea to create an
> "upstream" project, if only on alioth, and not package as Debian-native.
Hmmm. Who steps forth to `care for' the upstream project? For sure not
me. If nobody wants to, I already have incorporated pfb2t1c2pfb into
my cm-super package. Whatever we decide, its ok with me. Just tell me.
Best wishes
Norbert
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