Comment 58 for bug 712521

Hi everyone,

here a few remarks from the Debian maintainer.

On Mi, 04 Apr 2012, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> As bug free as texlive may be, I don't think the Ubuntu Release Team
> wants to do this transition 6 weeks after Feature Freeze when we're
> supposed to be in heavy-duty LTS bug-fixing mode. Also, there may very
> well be bugs in the Debian packaging or perhaps bugs in packages that
> build their docs with tex.

I agree, and don't think that this will happen.

On Mi, 04 Apr 2012, AlfC wrote:
> BTW, is the partitioning of TeXLive portions based on the Debian
> packaging? or are you packaging directly from the manual installation of
> TeXLive? As soon as I upgrade my good old 10.04 I will add your PPA and
> give you feedback.

As far as I remember Ubuntu follows Debian one-to-one.

Furthermore, the partitioning scheme is taken from upstream TeX Live
collections,

On Mi, 04 Apr 2012, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> I don't want to be the only guy maintaining this, so consider joining
> the team if you'd like to help with backporting packages from Debian (or
> Ubuntu 12.10 when the packages start showing up there).

Or, what about joining the Debian TeX packaging team and actually helping
packaging, and not only porting it from Ubuntu to Debian?
If more people would have helped, we might have had packages 6month earlier.

Best wishes

Norbert
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