Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> writes:
> Hi Vasudev,
>
>> We (me and Jaldhar) are planning to drop the latex-sanskrit package from
>
> Ok.
>
>> Can you please drop the latex-sanskrit from depends/recommends of above
>> package in your next release?..
>
> Sure. We will re-include the "sanskrit" part of TeX Live which
> only ships the mf /pfb files and the source of the preprocessor.
Thank you.
>
>> Also I will file bug on above 3 packages if needed, I thought I will
>> first contact you guys before filing bug. Please let me know your
>> thoughts on this.
>
> There is one thing we should think about: Transition for users of
> latex-sanskrit.
Yes I can see 200 popcon number which might be active or not active so
we can provide a transitional package if people are still using it
without dropping the package abruptly.
>
> If you think it is fine to drop the package completely without
> any upgrade path, that is fine with me.
>
> Otherwise we could build a transitional package "latex-sanskrit"
> from texlive-lang that just depends on
> texlive-lang-indic
> and be gone.
>
> That way you don't have to request removal either, since it is
> just a change of maintainer, and at the end will be removed
> at some point.
Yeah this is fine with me!. Jaldhar please ack.
>
> Let me know your opinion and I will implement it for TL 2014,
> (which will probably never enter Debian if we don't get a new libpng)
That would be great if you can implement this dummy package as part of
TL 2014!.
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