On 7 Jan 1998, Davide G. M. Salvetti wrote: > AucTeX is listed as orphaned in wnpp; I'm willing to take over its > maintenance if nobody objects.
I think this might be because teTeX has now replaced AucTeX as the Debian TeX/LaTeX distribution of choice. Of course TeX/LaTeX is so darn complicated I'm not really sure about this. Btw, if you have ever managed to make dvi files with ps images print right through magicfilter, I would love to hear how you did it. > > I'll be able to ship release 9.8i --- the latest one, I think --- in a few > days; I guess I'm able to fix all outstanding bugs I am aware of. > > I've a bunch of questions about this package which may well be just > newbie's questions, so I'm carbon copying to debian-mentors as well: > please, let's talk there about this if it isn't appropriate to > debian-devel. > > Questions: > ---------- > > 1) AucTeX has many .el's which should be shipped byte-compiled: should I > compile them with some specific Emacs flavor or doesn't it matter which > Emacs I'll use? (Please consider that, AFAIK, XEmacs comes with its own > AucTeX, so AucTeX should probably care only about GNU/Emacs; I'm not sure, > about that, though, mainly 'cause I don't use XEmacs :-).) > > 2) Should I remove byte-compiled source files in the binary package in > order to minimize its size? (It's a matter of some 600k; current AucTeX > package behaves this way.) > > 3) Current AucTeX package puts its data (.elc's) in /usr/lib/emacs/common; > should I put them in /usr/share/emacs/whatever_is_more_appropriate or > something else instead? (Please, consider FHS and FSSTND, and the fact > many packages already put stuff in /usr/share.) > > 4) AucTeX needs to periodically scan (La)TeX style files to keep itself in > touch with what one has installed on his machine; it does this by > cron.weekly. Current AucTeX package puts resulting files under /usr > (precisely just where it puts its data: /usr/lib/emacs/common); I believe > I should put things under /var, instead: any comments, please? > > 5) Current AucTeX package puts its configuration files directly under > /etc/elisp: is this still good behavior? > > 6) Current AucTeX package asks specific questions to the user in preinst > (stead of postinst) under certain conditions (namely if the user has > already installed some custom AucTeX version, or if he's upgrading from > really old package versions): I think its really the right place to ask > that and it does not go against policy (not all user are asked these > questions, just the ones who have conflicting software installed), but I'd > like to have some feedback from someone more experienced than me. > (Obviously all of the other general questions that are necessary to ask are > asked in postinst.) > > Waiting for comments, > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
