Hi Norbert, On 05.10.2012 11:36, Norbert Preining wrote: > Bugs of this kind I normally close, if I don't because I ignored them > at some point they may rot forever in the BTS (which I consider BTW > anyway not very useful at all). That is life, I honestly don't care.
Thank you for pointing out, that I was totally right to fear that my bug report was about to be rotting for the next four years for being just an "inconvenience" to someone else. Now, let's get back to the bug at hand... I don't think this issue is worth the hassle of making a patch unless you'd tie yourself down to not reject a patch for the reason of modifying your build script to allow for a change of fact 1: configuring selected collections to be split into packages. >From how I read your message though I get the feeling, that's something you don't want to have (maybe because you fear, it would be a step toward changing fact 2, which is not necessarily the case, as long as you'd keep a policy of only splitting very large collections). I see no chance of making this kind of fix in upstream, since upstream simply does not have the bug: In Tex Live's package management you can already choose single packages out of a collection. There is no need for them to do anything about it. Now, if you insist on keeping the debian package == Tex Live collection correspondence, no matter what inconveniences might occur from that decision, then you can close this bug as "wontfix", since any solution can only contradict with that axiom. That way at least you won't have yet another bug report rotting in the BTS. Yours Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
