severity 320413 important # will get serious once teTeX-3.0 enters unstable (in the absence of a # package maintainer's opinion, I count mine as teTeX's maintainer) retitle 320413 texinfo must provide texi2pdf - causes FTBFS, e.g. of laptop-net stop
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Josip, > > we are currently testing whether uploading teTeX-3.0 to unstable > (currently in experimental) would cause any FTBFS bugs, and indeed it > does. > > Hilmar Preusse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 07.08.05 Kurt Roeckx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >>> - laptop-net: >>> texi2pdf laptop-net.texi >>> make[2]: texi2pdf: Command not found >>> >> texi2pdf was in tetex-bin. Dunno why it disappeared. > > ,---- /usr/share/doc/tetex-bin/changelog.gz > | Do Dez 2 13:48:39 CET 2004 > | * texinfo 4.7.90 (pretest version), remove texi2pdf from > | texk/tetex (now in texinfo) > `---- I think the proper way of adressing this problem is not to revert a decision that the upstream maintainers of texinfo and teTeX have made, and take texi2pdf from current texinfo upstream into the teTeX packages. Rather texinfo should be updated. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
