Hi Norbert, Please remember these arguments you have been making next time you make what you believe are perfectly justified changes to the texlive packaging by (once again) introducing new and incompatible versions of sty files or moving files between packages.
I'm sure the texlive maintainers feel perfectly justified in breaking existing setups and causing packages to FTBFS by doing this. I'm sure you can explain to me that it's all much better for the changes, even though it looks like it only makes work for me. I understand that to a large extent your hands are tied because you need to track upstream releases and you can't hold a style file at an ancient version forever just to make sure that nothing gets broken. Because I trust the texlive maintainers to be fundamentally doing the right things for Debian, I don't reassign all the bugs you cause to the texlive packages because they were the ones that broke their reverse-dependencies. Rather, I spend the time to adapt to the new way. Similarly, I don't rant on mailing lists about how the world is going to end because of this breakage. I don't make insinuations about the competence of the texlive maintainers when I don't understand why they have done something. I don't belittle your work. I don't run around complaining that your approach to texlive is a giant conspiracy. The same is true for a package like systemd-shim which would permit you to use the packages you talked about without running systemd. systemd-shim has to adapt to the changing landscape around it and it is the responsibility of its authors (NOT the systemd maintainers) to have it ready and functioning. What's more, I believe that work is well advanced and you'll find more information about that in this thread. A little empathy for fellow developers, a little time looking in the mirror and some effort to see things from other perspectives would go a long way and be greatly appreciated. Stuart -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint 90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/lqogpu$i0r$1...@ger.gmane.org
