Hello, quilt is currently used by 70 debian package to handle the delta between the debian version and the upstream one. With time, this number tends to grow.
Unfortunately, this good news induce some extra load on my shoulder. Since we are listed in the build-dependency of a lot of packages, we shouldn't list too much other packages ourselves in order to reduce the possibility of circular build-dependencies which are naturally evil. For now, we have: cdbs, debhelper, gettext, gawk, hevea, lynx The first two ones are debian-specific stuff. I plan to rework the packaging to remove cdbs, but it's not the purpose of this mail. gettext and gawk are mandatory and that's not a big deal. But the last two ones are needed because of the LaTeX documentation, which needs a *lot* of stuff if you want text and htmp versions in addition to pdf. So, if nobody objects, I plan to convert the .tex documentation to the POD format (the perl online documentation). It is not as powerful as tex, but it can be converted to a large panel of formats without difficulties. Any objection? Mt. -- Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. -- Groucho Marx
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