Re: improving cm-super package
Dear Klaus, dear Frank!
Thanks a lot for the comments, but wouldn't it be better if you would
have contacted me as the cm-super maintainer directly?
Anyway ...
On Mit, 26 Apr 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> the new cm-super package from a Debian repository will have teTeX 3.0
I think Frank is completely right here. It is really straight-forward
and easy:
tetex2/woody: use pts-tetex-cm-super, the old package
tetex3/etch+: use cm-super
I thought about incorporating tetex2 compatibility, but it showed as
useless.
Currently sarge is stable where you can use pts-tetex-cm-super.
If you want newer cm-super fonts, then you probably also want newer TeX
system, so either install tetex3 from backports.org together with
cm-super, or texlive (if there will ever be a backport of it).
> available. Therefore the only people who would benefit from this are
> the ones who run sarge without backports, take cm-super from CTAN and
> build a Debian package from it.
Completely right.
> The current debian directory is actually a good example why it is a bad
> idea: The packages installs /usr/bin/t1c2pfb, and it had no reason not
Read, "the current debian directory provided by upstream"
One final question to Klaus: What is the problem you try to solve?
Is it:
- run stable=sarge with tetex2 and new cm-super fonts?
- make a package that can be used everywhere under the same name?
- ...?
So I am also opposing this idea, and I think upstream really does not
have to care for the debian packaging, this is what I will care for.
Anyway, thanks for taking your time and suggestion this, and all the
best
Norbert
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