Bug#667912: texlive-bin: drop t1lib dependency

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi,

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

Not the only one we have, I don't care. ICU, ...  If its dropped, so what, we ship a copy.

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

Then please provide a patch for that, because there is demand. And not one that simply disables xdvi, that is just BS, everyone can do that.

BTW, I have already reported that some time ago to the xdvik bug tracker, and there is work going on. But before I drop xdvi I drop out as TeX maintainer. And the all of TeX using Debian will be hosed.
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No, there will be xdvi as long as there will be TeX Live AFAIS, and thus also in Debian.

Enjoy

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