On 11/30/2025 10:21 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: Hello Andreas,
today dvidvi came up as a Bug of the Day target and I had a look into it. At its Homepage[1] there is an unversioned zip file which contains way newer files then the Debian source package. I tried to compile it in some refreshed d/rules which I injected into Git[2] but got
The original idea of split off packages was to have more frequent release cycle for these. As dvidvi does not seem to be updated more frequently than TL itself (and if the Debian maintainer does not really care) it does not make sense to have it split off.
So I would remove the configure option "--disable-dvidvi" and then insert fields
Conflicts: dvidvi Provides: dvidvifor next upload? I guess this is all, which needs to be done? The test build on ARM64 worked fine.
H. -- sigfault
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