Re: TeXlive for Debian - the slice-it-out release
Hi all!
On Mon, 05 Dez 2005, Frank Küster 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...).
Ok, I stop this now. I will do it after tetex is in testing ...
> - 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
Ok, I got it (although I didn't have time to think about the transition
stuff).
> > * blacklisting xymtex as it is not distributable.
>
> I hope this means that it doesn't get into the orig.tar.gz.
Yes, new .orig.tar.gz have been build. Same with ppower4
> Regards, and thanks for your tremendous work!
Well, I burden enough work onto you by doing stupid stuff!
I will be more of less off-line this week, working in Swansea with a
colleague.
Best wishes
Norbert
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