On So, 03 Jan 2010, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > The packages have been in experimental for some time.
>
> That's irrelevant...
I kind of disagree here ... so what is experimental for?
> I'm not suggesting doing that on your laptop. There have been archive
> test builds for new gcc versions and countless other things in the past,
> I asked for one before the last libx11 upload, etc. It's not more work
> for you to ask for this, and it means you have an idea about the impact
That is an interesting thing. Actually I don't know about whom and
where to ask. Please let me know, and I hope to remember for the
switch from 2009->2010.
> communicating with those package maintainers when planning disruptive
> changes. Nothing new there, and because some other packages caused
Honestly, I *cannot* take this job. If someone of the TeX Team can
take this over, fine, but I have enough things to do.
And if you insist, I am fine with giving up that bunch for adoption.
> > sed -e s/texlive-latex-recommend/texlive-latex-extra/g
> > on debian/control is enough?
> >
> Because while that's easy in one package, it means lots of work to get
> the archive back to a buildable state if it affects many packages. And
> because I'd like to make sure that things go as smoothly as possible
> next time.
Do you have a statistics how many packages are *actually* affected?
We have gotten only your complain. Let us multiply by a factor of 10
(which is a lot) for not reported problems, then we are at 10 FTBFS.
that is not "a lot" and I can live with that.
As said, it is easy, if there is a problem just send an email and
we will tell you what to do. There are enough people to answer
these kind of questions here, so fixing them should be easy.
Best wishes
Norbert
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