Re: passivetex in TeXLive?
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> BTW I consider it a pity that it was removed from *sid* ... but then,
> AFAIS the whole xml debian group is practically dead. I never got *ANY*
> answer about the packages etc.
The only time someone spoke up when he agreed to the QA removal
request...
>> So why (in the sense of "by means of which code?") is collection-htmlxml
>> not included?
>
> The arguing/idea behind was:
> - we should try to use as much as possible already present Debian
> packages
> - there is already xmltex, passivetex, jadetex in Debian
> - collection-htmlxml does only consist of these three plus xmlplay
> - one Debian package texlive-htmlxml *only* for xmlplay is a bit
> overkill
> - move xmlplay to texlive-latex-extra
Yes, I understand and agree. However, *how* is it done? There's no
"blacklist;tpm;collection-htmlxml"?
> Now should we reconsider this? Maybe after etch we reintroduce this
> collection including passivetex/jadetex/xmltex and try to eliminate the
> present Debian packages which are practically unmaintained (see above).
Sounds reasonable.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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