* Frank Küster wrote: > Hi Thierry, > > thank you for the patch. I have some critical remarks, though, with my > TeX maintainer hat on: > > Thierry Reding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > However, building in clean sid chroot also revealed some subsequent build > > failures: libservlet2.3-java doesn't provide the servlet-api.jar, only > > libservlet2.4-java does. In order to generate the PDF documentation, sbaz > > needs build-dependencies on tetex-bin | texdoctk (for pdflatex) and > > tetex-extra for (times.sty). > > - texdoctk does not exist at all (it once existed pre-potato), and it > never provided pdflatex. It still exists as an executable in > tetex-bin and texlive-base-bin, but it is a Perl-TK interface to TeX > documentation
I will drop that alternative then, and make it explicit. Thanks for explaining. > - tetex will be dropped in lenny, all dependencies in etch should have > an alternative on the respective texlive packages. For sbaz, this > probably means > > tetex-bin | texlive-latex-base, tetex-extra | texlive-fonts-recommended > > but actually there's no simple rule for tetex->texlive mappings. You > have to try, maybe it needs more packages. If it builds documentation > in other languages than english, it needs the respective > texlive-lang-* package. I guess in that case it'd be okay to make texlive-latex-base and texlive-fonts-recommended the default alternatives instead of the tetex equivalents? > - finally (but this has nothing to do with Debian packaging): times.sty > is obsolete (since about 10 years), mathptmx.sty should be used > instead. Yeah, that is probably something to be taken up with upstream. > Regards, Frank Thanks for your comments Frank. Cheers, Thierry
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