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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Paul Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As my first contribution to Debian I intend to package the MiKTeX tools
from Christian Schenks MiKTeX project.
* Package name : miktex-tools
Version : 2.7.2960
Upstream Author : Christian Schenk
* URL : http://miktex.org/unx
* License : GNU General Public Licence, Other/Proprietary
License
Programming Lang : C++
Description :
MPM (MiKTeX Package Manager) is a command-line program used to install
TeX packages from a web-based MiKTeX package repository.
MPM was originally intended to be a tool for MiKTeX users. But the
program can be helpful for users of other TeX systems too, because many
of the MiKTeX packages are system-independent.
Several additional utility programs are also included:
* initexmf is used to configure MiKTeX.
* md5walk is used to calculate the fingerprint of a package.
* mpc (MiKTeX Package Creator) is used to maintain the contents of a
custom package repository.
* mthelp is a utility to lookup TeX package documentation.
Information about MiKTeX tools can be found at http://miktex.org/unx/.
This package is quite large and unfortunately also involves libraries,
but I believe that I nearly coped with that. I do have some issue
figuring out how the License should read. The text in the project itself
says:
Copying conditions for MiKTeX
To the best of my knowledge, all software in this distribution is freely
redistributable (libre, that is, not necessarily gratis), within the
Free Software Foundation's definition and Debian Free Software
Guidelines. If you find any non-free files included, please contact me.
That said, MiKTeX has neither a single copyright holder nor a single
license covering its entire contents, since it is a collection of many
disparate packages. Therefore, you may copy, modify, and/or redistribute
software from MiKTeX only if you comply with the requirements placed
thereon by the owners of the respective packages.
To most easily learn these requirements, I suggest checking the TeX
Catalogue at:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html (or any
CTAN mirror). The Catalogue is also included in MiKTeX in
doc/html/catalogue/, but the online version will have updates. Of course
the legal statements within the packages themselves are the final authority.
Should I really check every single file in the project for Debian?
Kind regards,
Paul Gevers
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