Dear release team, with the next upload (scheduled for today) of teTeX-3.0 to experimental, I think we have only cosmetic issues left before we can upload it to unstable. Before doing this, however, I'd like to notify you, so that you have a chance to yell out "no!". There are two problem areas where tetex might interfere with other packages:
a) libkpathsea: It has a new soname, and I have not checked at all whether this causes problems in compiling other packages. I do not expect, however, big problems with that because of two reasons: First of all, only a limited number of packages (and no libraries if you don't count the libkpathsea-perl perl module) with a limited scope on TeX depend on it. Second, without looking it up, I assume that most or even all packages in Debian that depend on it are also part of TeX-live, where compilation and runtime problems should have revealed themselves. b) More severely, tetex-bin is a build-dependency of many packages. While I think that our packages do not contain major bugs, I would be surprised if the upgrade did not reveal bugs in packages that use it, causing some to FTBFS. We've had such cases a year ago when we changed internals of tetex-bin and found that certain packages messed with them during build or installation. If nobody objects, I think we will be able to do an upload next week. TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
