Bug#365216: tetex-base: babel: 00readme.heb (hebrew documentation) is missing, only in tetex-src
Package: tetex-base
Version: 3.0-16bpo1
Severity: normal
The file describes hebrew support and is only in tetex-src.
I've had an alternative idea how to fix problems of that sort.
Currently, we add the files with a patch in debian/patches, or in the
uuencoded missingfiles.tar.gz if it's a binary file.
What about build-depending on tetex-src instead, and copying the files
from its tree into the install tree? The obvious disadvantage is that
it requires even more downloading (55MB). But it saves human resources
- regenerating the missingfiles.tar.gz e.g.
It would also ease changes to documentation - we could just fix it in
tetex-src's source, compile the dvi file in its build process, and copy
that into tetex-doc's install tree. On the other hand, any fix would
require two uploads...
What do you think?
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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