Comment 6 for bug 25010

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:41:47 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?= <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, teTeX maintainers <email address hidden>
Subject: please remove passivetex from testing (was: passivetex: destroys
 local configuration)

Frank K=FCster <email address hidden> wrote:

> The package has two serious bugs, and some normal ones:

I was about to create a patch for the package, but I discovered more
issues. Most notably, the Makefile in the example directory fails
because it cannot find a file "tei.xsl", which does not exist in the
source package or anywhere in Debian (main). Thus it seems the package
is not even functional.=20=20

Given that

- The package has 2 RC bugs without maintainer reaction, one of them for
  more than 2 months

- and one normal without maintainer reaction (after it has been assigned
  to passivetex), and no action at all for 2 years

- passivetex seems to have functionality problems (see above, and the
  normal bug's log mentions that xmlto wants to switch away from
  passivetex)

- No package Depends on it, and only one (xmlto, see above) Suggests it,
  and one Recommends it (xmltex) it,

I suggest to remove the package from testing.

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