On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:51:04 +0200 Sam Geeraerts <[email protected]> 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 -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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