forcemerge 456360 456400 tags 456360 upstream stop Orestes Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Norbert, I don't believe this is a political question. It isn't. It's a bug just as lots of others in our packages. But its importance, compared to the amount of time to fix it properly, makes it clear that it doesn't make sense to discuss it in the Debian BTS, as well as that no one among the currently overloaded TeXLive upstream maintainers will fix it. Unless someone comes up with a patch, which doesn't need to be in the form of code, but must take into account the facts about the TeXlive distribution (like numbers and sizes of collections). So please stop wasting our time. Either come up with a proposal, or stop whining. And please note that the fact that I use the word "whining" has nothing to do with the bug having a political aspect. I've used similar wording in the numerous libpaper bugs. Meanwhile we do have a patch, and the only reason why nobody has implemented it yet are our time constraints. Like, having to discuss about... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
