Re: Bug#562318: collatinus: FTBFS: ! LaTeX Error: File `ucs.sty' not found.
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 18:09:09 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On So, 03 Jan 2010, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > ucs.sty seems to be in texlive-latex-extra in sid. TeX maintainers, is
> > this change expected with texlive 2009? Do you know how many packages
> > are affected by the move of files between packages in this version?
>
> Whatever you mean with intended, but the move was done upstream, so
> we do it here, too, because we follow strictly the splitting
> as done upstream.
>
> How many packages are affected: No idea.
>
> Yes, the swithc from 2007 -> 2009 will have some consequences, but in
> general it is enough to adapt the build dependencies, that should suffice
> (but in some cases).
>
It might have been a good idea to announce the change and explain the
possible impact before doing it, and maybe do an archive test build
before uploading the new packages then, instead of making an unknown
number of packages unbuildable without warning… Oh well, maybe next
time.
Cheers,
Julien
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