Bug#400657: example feynmf package

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

"Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU> wrote:

> fixes.  Could you please test that version instead?  I've done some
> tests to make sure that apt-get/aptitude do the right thing in various
> installation scenarios.  If everything looks good to you and Norbert
> I'll upload it to ftp-master.

Hm, I neither have time for testing, nor any experience with feynmf (or
much experience with texlive, for that matter), so I'm not the person to
test this.  But I think if you can install it and run one of your
example files, the worst thing that can happen is that the package is
missing a Recommends.

> Norbert Preining wrote:
>
>> Frank: If you want you can do an upload, just add
>> 	blacklist;tpm;feynmf;*
>> to the cfg file (if feynmf is the right tpm name). Then we have to add something like
>> 	recommends;texlive-metapost;feynmf (>= ???)
>> (version necessary???) and maybe something like
>> 	depends;texlive-full;feynmf
>
> If you want a versioned recommends from texlive-metapost, I guess it
> should be >= 1.08-3.

I don't think this is needed or would do any good.  You simply can't
fulfill older feynmf's dependencies with texlive, but texlive would have
worked with the old version, wouldn't it?  So adding a version would
only make control files more complicated, and possible make apt(itude)s
resolver decisions harder upon upgrade.

> By the way, I've switched between sets of teTeX and TeXLive packages
> several times now testing dependencies, and you guys have really done a
> great job of making sure that goes smoothly. :-)

Thanks :-)

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)