Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

[Karl Goetz]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:51:04 +0200
Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:

> Karl Goetz schreef:
> > HI all,
> > Would one of the tex users like to hack on texlive-base?
> > 
> > gNS bug report: http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00248
> > Upstream bug:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477060
> > 
> > I suspect its much the same level effort as the
> > texlive-generic-extra package.
> 
> I suspect it's much more effort then that. texlive-generic-extra just 
> Best case scenario is then that AMS have indeed cleaned it up. That 
> means we'd have to backport a new version (with possibly lots of 
> dependencies):

bugger.

> "we are not likely to distribute a new
> release without also taking into account the bug reports
> that have surfaced since the last release, so getting
> something done will take some time"

Is there a taker to find out?

> Worst case scenario is that nothing has changed, so we'd have to
> remove the whole thing. It seems this would not only hurt TeX users
> badly, but might also break other stuff:
> 
> "we do not know whether any of these files is used for
> building Debian packages"

We broke X badly, sometimes these things happen.
Its also possible a number of the Debian packages are built against ams
because its available - they might be re-introduce-able by rebuilding
them.
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
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