Hi everybody, in the last months or even years, xmltex and passivetex have been basically unmaintained (and they *do* have bugs), and responses from the list which is listed as maintainer are very rare. jadetex is actually maintained by you, Ohura-san, but maybe gets not as much care as it could have - and anyway the coordination with the TeX Task Force could be better than we currently manage for a package so tightly coupled to TeX.
On the other hand, integration of these three components into TeXLive has already been accomplished upstream, and we only cut them out because they existed as separate packages already in the days of teTeX only. We therefore intend to essentially take over xmltex and passivetex, by providing a package texlive-xml or similar[1] which would "Provide: xmltex, passivetex", and then requesting their removal on ftp.debian.org as RoM. We offer to do the same with jadetex, if Ohura thinks this is the way to go. If you prefer to keep maintaining it separately, no problem. This or that way, you're invited to join our list and team. Comments, protest? Regards, Frank [1] following upstream's naming, it would be texlive-htmlxml, but that includes also tex4ht which we do not think should be integrated -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
