Re: Stalled TexLive upgrades
Hi Gordon,
Please keep the list in Cc ... there is in most MUA a group reply
function.
On Do, 12 Apr 2012, Gordon Haverland wrote:
> > first of all, please contact the Debian TeX Maint mailing list,
> > as it is also mentioned as maintainer of the TeX Live packages.
>
> It is listed as "a" maintainer. But, if I don't belong to a
$ apt-cache show texlive-common | grep ^Maintainer
Debian TeX Maintainers <debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org>
the rest are *uploaders*.
> Debian mailing list, how does one send them anything? But,
$ mail debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org
Subject: I need your help
Hello dear maintainers of TeX Live ...
.
$
or any other standard MUA?
> sending a note to only a mailing list, means a person might wait a
> long time to get an answer.
??? I thought you are checking the list archives (as you said there
is no activity, I guess you at least checked for activity?!?!).
Does it seem that the list is very unresponsive?
> For me, much of what you have below should be part of the buglist
> for scalable-cyrfonts-tex where the maintainer was trying to
> orphan the package.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?ordering=normal;archive=0;src=scalable-cyrfonts;dist=unstable;repeatmerged=0
I don't see any statement about orphaning? Neither there nor on
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned
?
> > So why don't you remove scalable-cyrfonts-tex?
> > It is only a suggests of texlive-lang-cyrillic, so far from
> > necessary.
>
> I could. Why should I? I am going to suggest that I don't have
> enough information to make the decision.
Have you tried dist-upgrade?
> > First: it does not block
> > Second: there is activity, see below.
>
> You must be using a different definition of block. For my
Yes, I have.
> > Did you check debian-tex-maint mailing list?
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-tex-maint/2012/03/msg00326.html
> > and the following thread?
>
> That message is prior to when I started looking.
Ok, *when* did you start? Yesterday?
> I will purge the blocking package. I think that someone should
> add a note to the bugreport about the maintainer looking to drop
> the package, suggesting that people drop the package.
Which bug report are you talking about?
Enjoy.
Best wishes
Norbert
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