Christian T. Steigies wrote: >> I read it as just claiming to provide fonts which are as good as >> LaTeX fonts are (however good that is). It was only later that I >> learned that it does this by actually using LaTeX. >> >> So shouldn't there be some sort of package dependency on LaTeX? > > As far as I understand, the fonts are included (in ascii format) in gle. > They seem to have been generated from TeX fonts a long time ago. If they > would be generated during every package build, there should be a dependence, > but I don't think they need to be generated?
I'm not talking about a build-time dependency; I'm reading the bits in the upstream description that seem to say it has a run-time dependency ("GLE relies on LaTeX for text output"). Is that true or not? [...] >> The phrase "both VAXes and PCs" was insanely dated even when this >> software was first packaged for Debian in 2005. > > It was first packaged more than 5 years before that, but not uploaded since > the copyright was unclear. In those days VAXes were still popular, > collegues still use them to process data today. I wonder if they still use > punchcards for the Voyagers? (So there were still people around in the late nineties who thought the world of computing could be evenly divided into "VAXes and PCs"? I think you're getting your decades mixed up; the VAX product line was pretty much doomed by 1990 and officially discontinued in 2000.) [...] >> Patch attached. > > thanks. Can this wait until wheezy is released? AFAIK we are in a freeze > already. In principle documentation/localisation updates can get past the freeze, though I'm not sure about the details - maybe you'd just need to tag the unblock request appropriately? -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org