Bug#1006644: Any reason to keep dvidvi as a separate package outside texlive?
Hi Hilmar,
Thank you for the quick information.
Am Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 05:23:14PM +0100 schrieb Preuße, Hilmar:
> 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: dvidvi
Makes sense.
> for next upload? I guess this is all, which needs to be done? The test build
> on ARM64 worked fine.
Sounds good. I think once this might have moved to testing we can ask for
removal of the dvidvi package.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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