Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 11:30:09PM +0200, Hilmar Preuße wrote: >> Thanks for the bug report. I don't think that severity is important >> -> lowering to normal. > > Fair enough. It does break a component, though.
One of the many dozens in the package. >> As I could see in the google groups thread the upstream author is >> already informed. So I just mark the bug as forwarded, no we don't >> intend to patch the file in Debian. Please install the fixed version >> in your local texmf tree. > > He's aware of it since a year, yes. Fact is: It's broken in Debian and it > does > break TeX files that use it. I didn't notice that it's some sort of contrib > thing, which is what CTAN suggests. contrib on CTAN doesn't mean the same as in Debian. Still, we are not able to fix every bug in a package that is on CTAN. We don't even have the manpower to fix all the bugs that *we* introduced by our packaging, and forwarding upstream bugs to upstream (i.e. package authors). Trying to fix bugs like this in Debian would mean: - Trying to be more up-to-date than upstream - sorting out the mess when a new TeXLive release comes: - has the package been updated, do we just drop the patch? - has the package been updated, but without the bug being fixed? Does the patch still apply? That simply doesn't work. However, you are free to maintain a dot2texi file in TEXMFDEBIAN. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg Debian Developer (TeXLive) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
