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Bug#667912: texlive-bin: drop t1lib dependency





On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com> wrote:


On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
Hi

> Hi, t1lib will be removed prior to the wheezy release (please see bug #637040). I've developed a patch for this package, but unfortunately xdivk needs to be disabled.  Please see attached.

Hahahahaha, are you joking???

Please go and hide somewhere in the bushes?!?!?

I can't believe how stupid people can get recently. That patch is a joke, changing the configure call is trivial.

Disabling xdvi, I can't grok it how ignorant people can be.

An incredibly apropos discussion:
http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2012/04/03/#insecure-libraries

Bottom line: embedded code copies are bad, and old/out-dated libraries are bad.

If there remains a high demand for xdvi, someone can certainly take up the cause of converting it to use freetype.

Best wishes,
Mike

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