Re: "Smooth upgrade" for jadetex/xmltex: transitional packages?
Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> But I'm not sure we really need and want that. As far as I can tell,
>> jadetex and xmltex are mainly used as build-depends. If we just make
>> sure that the source and binary packages disappear from the archive, it
>> doesn't matter if some individual user still has the binary packages
>> installed. We could introduce a NEWS.Debian entry in texlive-common (or
>> tl-latex-base, or even tex-common, something which everybody has
>> installed) explaining what has been done.
>
> I don't understand your goal. With your proposal, if I understand it
> correctly, users who have installed jadetex or xmltex would be left with
> the old packages until they remove them themselves, presumably after
> having read a debconf note, right? So, basically, it's "upgrade works if
> you do it manually, dude". I don't see the point...
>
> What's the problem with uploading dummy jadetex and xmltex packages?
> Synchronisation with TL?
No - we could just generate them from texlive-extra. No, the point is
that I was just wondering whether we want two additional packages , and
whether anyone really has jadetex and xmltex installed for themselves.
But I see now that jadetex actually has a considerable number of popconf
installs and even votes. Let's create these two.
And a third one which I forgot so far: passivetex is also included in
collection-htmlxml. The package does no longer exist in the archives,
but it might exist on some installs (81 according to popcon, no
votes...)
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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