Bug#337436: please remove passivetex from testing

2006-01-13 Thread Frank Küster
severity 347884 serious # passivetex will be removed from testing thanks Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I could build the docs of gstreamer0.8 without having passivetex >> installed. I could not test the full build as it gave an FTBFS at >> another place, which was definitely not ca

Bug#337436: please remove passivetex from testing

2006-01-13 Thread Frank Küster
Hilmar Preusse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could build the docs of gstreamer0.8 without having passivetex > installed. I could not test the full build as it gave an FTBFS at > another place, which was definitely not caused by missing passivetex. I didn't get a FTBFS in a sid chroot (i386). Re

Bug#337436: please remove passivetex from testing

2006-01-13 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, gstreamer0.8 has a build-dependency on it, and I think we might > miss that. Do you have a solution for gstreamer0.8? Yes: I tried to find out which problems would occur, and it turned out that the build-dependency can simply be dropped: #347

Bug#337436: please remove passivetex from testing (was: passivetex: destroys local configuration)

2006-01-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:51:35AM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Frank, hi Steve! > On Don, 12 Jan 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > > source package or anywhere in Debian (main). Thus it seems the package > > is not even functional. > On Don, 12 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > > However, gs

Bug#337436: please remove passivetex from testing

2006-01-13 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fre, 13 Jan 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > > I could do the following: Take the sources from texlive (where > > passivetex was excluded due to its existence in debian) and try to fix > > the passivetex packages. It shouldn't be too complicated, but probably > > would be a complete rewrite of the sc

Bug#337436: please remove passivetex from testing (was: passivetex: destroys local configuration)

2006-01-13 Thread Hilmar Preusse
On 12.01.06 Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 06:41:47PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Hi *, > > I was about to create a patch for the package, but I discovered > > more issues. Most notably, the Makefile in the example directory > > fails because it cannot find a

Bug#337436: please remove passivetex from testing

2006-01-13 Thread Frank Küster
Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Don, 12 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: >> However, gstreamer0.8 has a build-dependency on it, and I think we might >> miss that. Do you have a solution for gstreamer0.8? > > I could do the following: Take the sources from texlive (where > passivet

Bug#337436: please remove passivetex from testing

2006-01-13 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, gstreamer0.8 has a build-dependency on it, and I think we might > miss that. Do you have a solution for gstreamer0.8? I'll look into it during the weekend. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Bug#337436: please remove passivetex from testing (was: passivetex: destroys local configuration)

2006-01-13 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Frank, hi Steve! On Don, 12 Jan 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > source package or anywhere in Debian (main). Thus it seems the package > is not even functional. On Don, 12 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > However, gstreamer0.8 has a build-dependency on it, and I think we might > miss that. Do

Bug#337436: please remove passivetex from testing (was: passivetex: destroys local configuration)

2006-01-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 06:41:47PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The package has two serious bugs, and some normal ones: > I was about to create a patch for the package, but I discovered more > issues. Most notably, the Makefile in the example directory

Bug#337436: please remove passivetex from testing (was: passivetex: destroys local configuration)

2006-01-12 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The package has two serious bugs, and some normal ones: I was about to create a patch for the package, but I discovered more issues. Most notably, the Makefile in the example directory fails because it cannot find a file "tei.xsl", which does not exist i