Re: [Bug 712521] Re: [Needs packaging] TeXLive 2011

2012-09-03 Thread Norbert Preining
Please close this bug, TeX Live 2012 is already packaged and in Ubuntu. On Tue, 04 Sep 2012, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > ** Tags removed: apport-bug i386 natty running-unity > ** Tags added: precise > > ** Summary changed: > > - [Needs packaging] TeXLive 2011 > + [needs-packaging] Latest TeXLive > > **

Re: [Bug 712521] Re: [Needs packaging] TeXLive 2011

2012-04-04 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Jeremy, On Mi, 04 Apr 2012, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > will become TeX contributors and help you out with testing and So I hope, but I don't believe in it. Too many have announced too much without ever ever contributing anything. > The PPA does help somewhat in that it makes it easier for future U

Re: [Bug 712521] Re: [Needs packaging] TeXLive 2011

2012-04-04 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi everyone, here a few remarks from the Debian maintainer. On Mi, 04 Apr 2012, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > As bug free as texlive may be, I don't think the Ubuntu Release Team > wants to do this transition 6 weeks after Feature Freeze when we're > supposed to be in heavy-duty LTS bug-fixing mode. Also

Re: [Bug 712521] Re: [Needs packaging] TeXLive 2011

2011-10-31 Thread Norbert Preining
On Sa, 29 Okt 2011, Catalin Hritcu wrote: > I willing to pledge 30$ to see this fixed ASAP. The problem is that I don't take money for my work on Debian. I am volunteer. And I want to be volunteer. Recently someone stepped forth on the mailing list (debian-tex-maint) with a serious support offer,

Re: [Bug 712521] Re: [Needs packaging] TeXLive 2011

2011-10-17 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 17 Okt 2011, Jan-Åke Larsson wrote: > 50-100 hrs is a lot. The few messages I found in debian-tex-maint in > August on TL2011 seemed to indicate that some work still remains to make > the packages hold together. Missing texmf.cnf, yikes! But as you say, Yes,some work is a slight underestima

Re: [Bug 712521] Re: [Needs packaging] TeXLive 2011

2011-10-16 Thread Norbert Preining
On So, 16 Okt 2011, oddhack wrote: > That's pretty harsh. Does the desire to remain current with collaborators > using newer TL versions on other platforms make me a dummy? Not sure > about the motivations of the other 124 people on the bug. It is about ranting instead of contributing. Do you act

Re: [Bug 712521] Re: [Needs packaging] TeXLive 2011

2011-10-16 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Jan-Åke, On So, 16 Okt 2011, Jan-Åke Larsson wrote: > I resent being called a dummie. I maintain one of the binary tools in > texlive. I very much appreciate that you maintain programs related to TeX, but I stand by my point, first that 90% or more of the people complaining on Launchpad are d

Re: [Bug 712521] Re: [Needs packaging] TeXLive 2011

2011-10-15 Thread Norbert Preining
> @preining > Could you post the links to the preliminary 2011 packages here too? I would > like to try. There was nothing to try becausr they were not installable. What we need is people with packaging ability and ability to check packages, not dummies trying to get the latest packages. Anyway

Re: [Bug 712521] Re: [Needs packaging] TeXLive 2011

2011-10-15 Thread Norbert Preining
> and I also need > tlmgr. And I have already said many many times that there will be no tlmgr in the Debian/Ubuntu packages, because there is no need and no place. If you want daily updates a la tlmgr install upstream TeX Live. End of line. -- You received this bug notification because you ar

Re: [Bug 712521] Re: [Needs packaging] TeXLive 2011

2011-09-20 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi > This wasn't what I meant. I meant to package just one bit of TL, the > installer, into it, and make it pretend to provide all the TL > dependencies. And, as I wrote in the last email, how would the build structure that automatically install buil dependencies make sure that all the necessary

Re: [Bug 712521] Re: [Needs packaging] TeXLive 2011

2011-09-19 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi everyone, > I should point out that, with the package manager tlmgr (new since the > 2010 version), there's no real need to group individual TeX Live > packages into debian ones, as was done with Live 2009. Instead, the > user can maintain a Live package system orthogonal to Ubuntu's. Wrong.