Hi Hilmar,
Am Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 12:17:25AM +0200 schrieb Preuße, Hilmar:
> > Today fweb was a candidate for the Bug of the Day[1] and thus I checked
> > this bug. I'm positively convinced that if we want to keep the package
> > inside Debian than it makes sense to do so inside the TeX team. Thus
> > I've created a repository in this team space[2].
>
> Thanks for that. However I'm not a programmer and I'm not eager to maintain
> a piece a software, which is considered to be dead in upstream, as I
> probably will never be able to address upstream bugs. I would need help here
> and I guess I can't expect that other people do the job.
I'm fine putting adding my name to Uploaders. IMHO the thing is simple:
If we will be successfully in packaging the latest version with a decent
amount of effort, we can do so. Otherwise it might make sense to remove
the package from Debian, IMHO.
> > I also think we should base the packaging on the latest upstream version.
> > So I checked the Homepage[3] where I actually found the statement
> >
> > FWEB was updated to version 1.70 in 2023
> After logging in using your google account, one gets a file, which says
> "beta" in the name:
>
> hille@rasppi3:~ $ ls -l fweb-1.70-beta.tar.gz
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 hille hille 3423018 Sep 11 10:54 fweb-1.70-beta.tar.gz
>
> As said: the new version uses cmake, so the Debian part needs probably
> redone anyway.
>
> I can try to package the new version, but don't expect to much.
If you could import
gbp import-orig --pristine-tar fweb_1.70~beta.orig.tar.gz
and push I'd volunteer to have a detailed look into it. But feel free
to go beyond this if you are interested.
Kind regards
Andreas.
PS: BTW, I have no good idea how to proceed with dvi2ps-fontdata.
I think it would be easiest to merge all binary packages into
one. If you have a better plan, feel free to implement it.
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