Re: How to deal with teTeX's and texlive's RC licensing bugs
Hi Frank!
On Fre, 29 Sep 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> > Or I blacklist only those files which are in the Debian package and
> > recommend it? What do you think?
>
> Yes, this is probably better. But only slightly; I don't know how much
> hassle it is to blacklist individual files.
Already done. How to blacklist:
blacklist;file;texmf/foo/bar/bla.sty
that was it. In fact I haven't taken a look into tpm2deb.pl for ages ...
> >> an ethiop-fonts package, too. But as a short term solution I suggest
> >> P/C/R.
> >
> > For ethiop I leave if for now, too much work to sort this out ...
>
> You mean, you just keep the Conflicts? There are no files in ethiop
> that are missing in texlive, except of course things like individual
> debian/copyright. So I think we can safely add Provides/Replaces.
Ok,
provides;texlive-latex-?????;ethiop
replaces;texlive-latex-?????;ethiop
conflicts;texlive-latex-????;ethiop
with current version number I assume?
> Okay, but if you tell me how to edit README.Debian for a particular
> binary package, I'll add the remark and drop the conflict.
texlive/trunk/addons-per-bin/texlive-foo-bar.README
(see examples there) This is merged at build time with
texlive/trunk/addons-per-soure/all.README.Debian
> A polish scientist working on far-eastern language or culture?
I was joking of course ... ?!
> > depends I think is going quite well. Build depends is a desaster.
>
> But it's easy to unintrusively NMU. We just need to arrange with the
> release team post-etch.
And a lot of time ...
Best wishes
Norbert
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