Re: TeXlive for Debian - the slice-it-out release
(shortened Cc)
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> . send patches to tipa and arabtex to upgrade them to work with tetex3
> and texlive
... and break our planned smooth upgrade path for tetex. Please do not
submit combined patches that make packages Depend on tetex-* (>=3.0...).
If you didn't know, you've learned meanwhile that tetex in Debian still
works with font files placed according to the old TDS. I wish to do the
testing transitions like this:
- Get fixed versions into testing of all packages that are so buggy that
they will break tetex's upgrade (format building problems)
- Let tetex migrate to testing
- Get TDS 1.1 versions of most packages into testing
- drop the backward compatibility, i.e. the old TEXFONTMAPS setting in
tex-common and the changes to updmap.
If font packages conforming to TDS 1.1 get into unstable, they will have
to Depend on tetex-* (>= 3.0), and thus there will be a big testing
transition: All of them have to go in together with tetex. In other
words: If one of those packages is RC buggy, tetex can't go into
testing; and worse if one of those packages builds binaries that are
involved in some library transition to testing, tetex is tied to that
library transition, too.
> 02.12.2005 NP
> * blacklisting xymtex as it is not distributable.
I hope this means that it doesn't get into the orig.tar.gz.
Regards, and thanks for your tremendous work!
Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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