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Re: Bug#556784: RM: etoolbox -- ROM; provided by TexLive 2009



On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 01:12:03PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mi, 18 Nov 2009, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote:
> > None of them are broken, and etoolbox isn't really of use to anyone for
> > that matter. We just pushed it into the archive to have the docs of
> 
> apt-cache show biblatex gives me
> 	Depends: ... texlive-latex-extra (>= 2009) ...
> so it is not installable in unstable. That is what I wanted to say.
> So the correct thing would have been to ask for uploading biblatex
> to experimental as I did with lmodern. biblatex is *not* 
> installable. 

I don't consider it necessary to have all rdepends in experimental if
those aren't experimental themselves. One big criteria for migration to
testing is the availability of all dependencies. What sense does such
criteria make if it's not allowed to have packages in unstable without
all dependencies? It's not an uncommon situation.

biblatex is installable with experimental and whoever can't deal with
such minor issues shouldn't run unstable. I didn't break a stable
release, not even testing; and it's not a big fat lib that's missing
which would need binNMUs and whatever... it's just a package waiting on
it's rdepends.

I understand your concerns but especially in this case (where upstream
not even considers biblatex very stable) I don't see the harm I've done.
Use biblatex with experimental, or don't use it. :)

Hauke

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