Suggestion for Debian TeX Policy
regarding <http://people.debian.org/~frank/Debian-TeX-Policy/>, the
usual attitude in the TeX community is to ensure compatibility by
never altering anything (packages, programmes etc), even though the
licence would allow it. (AFAIK) this has also been the case with Debian's
packages, but maybe this is worth "formalising" in the policy.
At the moment there is a paragraph
<p>
It is also discouraged to use a file other than from the
canonical source for that file, usually the CTAN network.
</p>
but maybe it should be stronger, something like:
<heading>Bugs and patches</heading>
<p> Because compatibility of TeX-related documents is essential,
packages must not distribute versions of files or programmes differing
from the canonical source for that file or program (which is usually
CTAN) unless the differences will never cause documents to render
differently on Debian systems. Bug reports requesting incompatible
behaviour or providing patches must of course be forwarded upstream as
usual Debian policy dictates.</p>
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