severity 320413 important
# will get serious once teTeX-3.0 enters unstable (in the absence of a
# package maintainer's opinion, I count mine as teTeX's maintainer)
retitle 320413 texinfo must provide texi2pdf - causes FTBFS, e.g. of laptop-net
stop


Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Josip,
>
> we are currently testing whether uploading teTeX-3.0 to unstable
> (currently in experimental) would cause any FTBFS bugs, and indeed it
> does. 
>
> Hilmar Preusse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On 07.08.05 Kurt Roeckx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>>> - laptop-net:
>>>   texi2pdf laptop-net.texi
>>>   make[2]: texi2pdf: Command not found
>>> 
>> texi2pdf was in tetex-bin. Dunno why it disappeared.
>
> ,---- /usr/share/doc/tetex-bin/changelog.gz
> | Do Dez  2 13:48:39 CET 2004
> |         * texinfo 4.7.90 (pretest version), remove texi2pdf from
> |           texk/tetex (now in texinfo)
> `----

I think the proper way of adressing this problem is not to revert a
decision that the upstream maintainers of texinfo and teTeX have made,
and take texi2pdf from current texinfo upstream into the teTeX
packages.  Rather texinfo should be updated.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer


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