Bug#531569: The five years old bug...
reopen 531569
severity 531569 grave
fixed 531569 2007.dfsg.1-5
thanks
On Tue, 02 Jun 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Di, 02 Jun 2009, Philippe Le Brouster wrote:
> > When installing tetex-bin on Debian Etch, it fails to configure. The
> > latex compilation seems to fail because the Latex source files are older
> > than 5 years. I've test to change my system date and it works fine...
>
> Please install texlive 2005 on etch, or upgrade to stable. We cannot fix
> anything in oldstable anymore.
Sorry, no. Etch is supported and there are regular point releases of it.
You can prepare an etch update of the package and you really should.
This bug is serious. tetex-bin is uninstallable on etch right now.
Copying debian-release to have their opinion on the importance of having
an etch stable update for this. It has a major impact like creating FTBFS
on etch packages that build-depend on tetex-bin...
Furthermore, you might want to check that the current texlive will
continue to work in 5 years... we do not want to keep this anti-feature
where software stops working just because a date is over.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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