Bug#432040: texlive-lang-greek: Missing built documentation

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Norbert Preining wrote:
>
>> severity 432040 wishlist
>> thanks
>>
>> On Fre, 06 Jul 2007, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>>> The file lgreekuse.tex(.gz) is not available in built form. This file
>>
>> Yes, true. We are packaging what is upstream, and will and cannot build
>> additional documentation for 1500 included CTAN packages.
>>
>>> seems to be duplicated in texlive-doc, but there's no built (DVI or
>>
>> These are links for the convenience of the user that one can find *ALL*
>> documentation under /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc
>>
>>> The same applies to other files (e.g. greekuse.tex(.gz)).
>
> You'll forward this wish upstream then?

Probably not - it's simply too much work to do that:  Find out a current
working address of upstream, telling them why they should put
documentation on CTAN, often finding that there's no upstream any
more... 

We generally rely on the CTAN people to do that.  Note that there are
three levels of "upstream" for TeXLive:  The TeXLive developers who take
their TeX input files from CTAN, the CTAN people who set policies for
package authors and their uploads, and those upstream package authors
themselves. 

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