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

[Benedikt Ahrens]

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I haven't had any answer from the AMS yet. Later today I'll contact the
Debian maintainer for some news.

ben


Karl Goetz wrote:
> 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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