Comment 14 for bug 25010

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:03:38 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?= <email address hidden>
To: Norbert Preining <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
 teTeX maintainers <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: please remove passivetex from testing

Norbert Preining <email address hidden> wrote:

> On Don, 12 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> However, gstreamer0.8 has a build-dependency on it, and I think we might
>> miss that. Do you have a solution for gstreamer0.8?
>
> I could do the following: Take the sources from texlive (where
> passivetex was excluded due to its existence in debian) and try to fix
> the passivetex packages. It shouldn't be too complicated, but probably
> would be a complete rewrite of the scripts/rules.
>
> Would this be ok for NMU?

It would also be a new upstream release, I guess (at least current
upstream has a "tests" subdirectory, while the Debian package has
"examples" instead). I don't think this would be good for an NMU,
rather for a takeover. Which I wouldn't mind, if you want to take the
task.=20

Regards, Frank
--=20
Frank K=FCster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z=FCrich
Debian Developer