Bug#671609: dot2texi broken with current texlive
Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 11:30:09PM +0200, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
>> Thanks for the bug report. I don't think that severity is important
>> -> lowering to normal.
>
> Fair enough. It does break a component, though.
One of the many dozens in the package.
>> As I could see in the google groups thread the upstream author is
>> already informed. So I just mark the bug as forwarded, no we don't
>> intend to patch the file in Debian. Please install the fixed version
>> in your local texmf tree.
>
> He's aware of it since a year, yes. Fact is: It's broken in Debian and it does
> break TeX files that use it. I didn't notice that it's some sort of contrib
> thing, which is what CTAN suggests.
contrib on CTAN doesn't mean the same as in Debian. Still, we are not
able to fix every bug in a package that is on CTAN. We don't even have
the manpower to fix all the bugs that *we* introduced by our packaging,
and forwarding upstream bugs to upstream (i.e. package authors).
Trying to fix bugs like this in Debian would mean:
- Trying to be more up-to-date than upstream
- sorting out the mess when a new TeXLive release comes:
- has the package been updated, do we just drop the patch?
- has the package been updated, but without the bug being fixed? Does
the patch still apply?
That simply doesn't work.
However, you are free to maintain a dot2texi file in TEXMFDEBIAN.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung
VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
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