Bug#688041: Please confirm

[Thomas Kremer <bugs.debian@xorg.c-informatik.de>]

[sorry for accidentally dropping the bug address; OTOH this gives me the
opportunity to include only the bug-relevant parts in the bug]

On 04.10.2012 05:54, Norbert Preining wrote:
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> Please go ahead and propose a splitting instead pf whining,

Well, I did exactly that in this bug report.

And if you mean by "propose" that I was to give a complete splitting
strategy on what should go where, I naively thought the maintainer would
know better than me anyway, but if asked I would propose one font family
per package. If there are actions involved (mktexlsr etc.), I propose
using an apt trigger.


> a splitting that will be accepted upstream.

Now here is a point I don't understand: What does upstream have to do
with debian packages?

I didn't suggest splitting the source package (which would probably be
sensible, yes), but splitting the binary package "texlive-fonts-extra".

There are undoubtedly many other packages that split the compiled output
of their sources into smaller binary packages (e.g. when splitting into
-data, -doc, -dev etc.) without needing written consent by upstream.

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Yours
Thomas Kremer