Hi Frank, On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 07:10:09PM CEST, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Release Team,
>
> the TeX Task Force proposes the following release goal:
>
> "No dependencies (Depends/Recommends/Suggests/Build-Depends{-Indep}) on
> tetex-* and texlive-full, only justified dep's on texlive",
>
> with the usertag-shortname "texlive-transition"
i would propose goal-textransition here, as AFAIK bts.turmzimmer.net is going
to filter on goal-* for user debian-release@lists.debian.org
> >>> * The (approximate) number of issues to be fixed needs to be identified
> >>> (and most of them should be ready to filed as bugs).
>
> Using grep-dcrtl, I found
>
> > Packages declaring run-time relationships to
> > tetex-base: 36
> > tetex-bin: 119
> > tetex-extra: 61
> > tetex-doc: 1
> > texlive: 2
> >
> > Packages declaring build-time relationships to
> > tetex-base: 9
> > tetex-bin: 191
> > tetex-extra: 134
>
> (at least one is a false positive, the tetex-bin metapackage correctly
> "Depends: texlive").
>
> There are already a couple of bugs filed, but we didn't do it
> systematically yet. That's because we were busy with our own packages,
> but these look stable and working now.
I would like to propose that one of the big goals of our upcoming BSP
marathon beginning in September should be to get the tetex-live
transition done. If noone else from the release team objects i would
propose to allow 0-day NMUs for all packages related to this.
> >>> * There needs to be a long-term strategy that prevents new occurences of
> >>> this issue.
>
> I don't know which kind of strategy we could name here - something like
> introducing a lintian check? Or just regularly updating the list of
> affected packages, and larting maintainer of newcomers?
I think the later is sufficient, but having a lintian check for this
might be a goody.
> Regards, Frank
>
> P.S. I've seen important bugs show up on http://bts.turmzimmer.net/,
> that's probably they are related to release goals? Would be nice if
> that was indicated even in the overview (didn't check in the detailed
> list), something like "new (release goal)".
That is being worked on.
>
> P.P.S. Martin, I didn't hear from you about the "who's contact for the
> TeX team" question, I guess that's just because you were busy, not
> because my two e-mails got lost?
I will reply to this now in a seperate mail.
Greetings
Martin
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