Frank Küster a écrit :
> severity 428784 important
>
> Elie Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> Package: opustex
>> Version: 0.84-5.1
>> Severity: grave
>> Justification: renders package unusable
>>
>> opustex depends on tetex-bin and tetex-extra, but texlive is used since
>> etch.
>>
>
> First of all, etch has both teTeX and TeXlive, so there is no problem in
> stable. In unstable, teTeX has dissappeared, and the tetex-* packages
> are only transitional packages for at users. They are not meant for
> other packages to depend on, and they do not guarantee any defined
> functionality in the technical ("Depends:") sense. Therefore there is
> actually a bug in opustex, but I think it's only "important".
>
> Elie, which problems did you encounter which would make the package
> unusable?
>
I have a default etch installation, and aptitude refuses to install
opustex, as I have not the tetex packages it depends on...
>> Why is the old version still used instead of the latest (which is very
>> old too)?
>>
>> Does the "licence" allow to patch OpusTeX?
>>
>
> No, it is nonfree and may not be changed - what was your intention?
>
Someone has given me some patches to improve OpusTeX a lot... but I
don't think they can be used...
> Maybe we should discuss whether OpusTeX should better be dropped from
> Debian:
>
> - it claims to be a beta version and has not seen any upstream
> development in the last nine years.
>
And the developer does not answer mails, and doesn't want to make his
work free...
> - there are other macro packages to typeset music with TeX available in
> Debian (musictex and musixtex in texlive-music) as well as frontends
> which are able to use TeX (lilypond).
>
You're right, but OpusTeX is mostly used to typeset gregorian chant, fot
which it is really the best macro package, even if it has a lot of defaults.
> - there are more macro packages to typeset music with TeX which are not
> yet available in Debian, but will probably be included in future
> versions of texlive (at least those which are free).
>
I'm building my own gregorian chant TeX package (for Omega in fact...),
but it is not finished yet (http://home.gna.org/gregorio/), I hope it
will be finished in september.
> - it is nonfree
>
> - according to popcon, it has 26 installations which gives it rank
> 20849, which is already in the area where about 50% of the packages
> are "not in sid", i.e. obsolete, and it has 8 votes (i.e. 8 users who
> participate in popcon have actually used it)
>
> - Anthony hasn't been very active as a maintainer
I think OpusTeX should not be dropped now from Debian, it would be
better to wait for another gregorian chant typesetting system (Lilypond
and MusiXTeX are really bad for gregorian chant).
Regards,
--
Elie
