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Re: "Smooth upgrade" for jadetex/xmltex: transitional packages?



Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:

> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I see.
>
>> But I see now that jadetex actually has a considerable number of popconf
>> installs and even votes.  Let's create these two.
>
> OK. For my enlightement, what is a "vote" in this context?

,---- /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ
| Q) What is considered a 'vote' for a package ?
| 
| A) A computer 'vote' for a package if according to the data provided in the
|    report, a program provided or depending on the package was used less than
|    thirty days ago. This computation is performed by the popcon server.  
`----

Don't ask me how it is actually done, and what "This computation"
means.  I had something in mind about atimes...

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



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