-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 <[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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpxMMgACgkQeizsUv+FLBJelgCgqkura2Bjv06jOO08uFtdcnyu N6wAn3p96BdR+zDV4nIXWX1yfAgr2M4C =5uf4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
