severity 428784 important
Elie Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: opustex
> Version: 0.84-5.1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> opustex depends on tetex-bin and tetex-extra, but texlive is used since
> etch.
First of all, etch has both teTeX and TeXlive, so there is no problem in
stable. In unstable, teTeX has dissappeared, and the tetex-* packages
are only transitional packages for at users. They are not meant for
other packages to depend on, and they do not guarantee any defined
functionality in the technical ("Depends:") sense. Therefore there is
actually a bug in opustex, but I think it's only "important".
Elie, which problems did you encounter which would make the package
unusable?
> Why is the old version still used instead of the latest (which is very
> old too)?
>
> Does the "licence" allow to patch OpusTeX?
No, it is nonfree and may not be changed - what was your intention?
Maybe we should discuss whether OpusTeX should better be dropped from
Debian:
- it claims to be a beta version and has not seen any upstream
development in the last nine years.
- there are other macro packages to typeset music with TeX available in
Debian (musictex and musixtex in texlive-music) as well as frontends
which are able to use TeX (lilypond).
- there are more macro packages to typeset music with TeX which are not
yet available in Debian, but will probably be included in future
versions of texlive (at least those which are free).
- it is nonfree
- according to popcon, it has 26 installations which gives it rank
20849, which is already in the area where about 50% of the packages
are "not in sid", i.e. obsolete, and it has 8 votes (i.e. 8 users who
participate in popcon have actually used it)
- Anthony hasn't been very active as a maintainer
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
