Bug#472810: tetex-base: Should this source package be removed?
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> On 13.04.08 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
>> Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> > I just noticed that there is still a tetex-base source package in
>> > sid, and that it is the only source package providing the
>> > tetex-doc binary package. With texlive uploaded quite a while
>> > ago, I was wondering whether this was an oversight, and whether
>> > we should request the removal of the source package.
>>
>> I'm not sure whether this has been discussed before - I'm just
>> finding this bugreport while I'm trying to reduce my mail backlog
>> after vacation. But anyway, it would be nice if tetex-base could
>> go. However, Hilmar is still working on checking tetex-doc's bugs.
>>
> Well, I guess the packages itself can go away anyway. We can go
> through the bugs of tetex-base, tetex-bin, tetex-doc, tetex-extra,
ACK
> tetex-doc-nonfree
That's a separate source package, anyway - and AFAIR it contains
material for beamer/pgf, too.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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