Re: RFA: latex-ucs -- support for using UTF-8 input encoding in LaTeX documents

[Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>]

Hallo Norbert,

gesundes neues Jahr! :)

Norbert Preining [2007-12-31 15:05 +0100]:
>   * make texlive-latex-recommended provide latex-ucs-uninames, latex-ucs,
>     latex-ucs-contrib as these Debian packages have been given up for
>     adoption

Thanks. In this case we can really remove the latex-ucs source.

> The problem is that there are still several packages depending on
> latex-ucs:

This should not be too bad, though. With the Provides:, apt-get should
figure it out.

> What about uploading a dummy package that depends on
> texlive-latex-recommended and filing bugs against those packages to
> replace the relations? But all after src:texlive-base 2007-14 has been
> released.

I don't think that we need the dummy package. I'll just file bugs
on the packages you mentioned to replace the dependency.

Thank you!

Martin

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