On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 03:36:46PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 01:36:22PM +0200, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> > On 04/28/2014 01:12 PM, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:47:29AM +0200, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> > >> Hi Bill,
> > >>
> > >> my reasoning was that the executable is rather useless without the
> > >> documentation, which is non-free (pdf without the tex source).
> > > I do not understand: byt this reasonning, this package being a C library
> > > without documentation, which is not used by any other packages in Debian, 
> > > is
> > > completly useless.
> > 
> > It is needed for Sage...
> 
> As long as ratpoints is included in Debian, ratpoints users should be able to
> use the Debian package even if they do not use SAGE. 
> 
> > > At least the binary has a --help options.
> > >
> > > Did you already ask Michael Stoll if he had the TeX source ? 
> > 
> > Yes, but maybe I should ask another time.
> 
> Well, I just did (I know him well).

Michael uploaded the documentation to <http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.3165>
the TeX source is available at <http://arxiv.org/format/0803.3165v4>

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>

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