Ubuntu
texlive-bin package

  1. Bug #577305
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 577305

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Norbert Preining (preining) wrote : Re: [Bug 577305] Re: [SRU] Missing dependency on ed causes texconfig to fail silently in texlive-binaries

> If you want people to know about your repository, please document it in
> debian/control using the fields defined in 6.2.5.2 of the Debian developer's
> reference.

I will do that.

Still I expect people taking our work from Debian and using it in Ubuntu to know without further ado where the repository is.

BTW, most Ubuntu patches are as useless as a pit in the bag, because they are based on the actual debian source package. But the source packages of the arch-indep packages are generated from a different setup, so ehatever patches there come in do not help at all.

> The texlive-bin source package currently has no such field
> defined, which means the location of your repository is not discoverable
> using the normal Debian procedures.

google-that-for-me ...

If one wants to contribute there are teo simple things:
- read the debian-tex-maint@ debian ml
- checkout the actual repository
and send patches relative to that.

Anything else is mostly nuisance, sorry to say that. I stopped reading quite some time ago the Ubuntu bug reports becausr the noise-info level is so low that it is wasted time (typical quality: "foobar is broken" turning out that disk space is running out).

If those happy Ubuntu hackers would fix things at the root that would be such an improvement ...

enough ranting

Norbert