Comment 8 for bug 25010

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:19:01 -0800
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: Frank =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FCster?= <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
 teTeX maintainers <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: please remove passivetex from testing (was: passivetex: destroys local configuration)

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On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 06:41:47PM +0100, Frank K=FCster wrote:
> 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

> 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,

However, gstreamer0.8 has a build-dependency on it, and I think we might
miss that. Do you have a solution for gstreamer0.8?

Thanks,
--=20
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
<email address hidden> http://www.debian.org/

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