Dear Frank, Thanks for the detailed response. This mail is a bit long please bear with me.
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:20:32PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > I think you should include 1.3a and put a remark into the file > explaining why. Furthermore, you should contact upstream and talk with > him about a rewording of the sentence about program renaming: The > exception from the old LPPL restrictions that he grants might already be > covered by LPPL-1.3b, and he might want to use that wording or simply > drop it. I have amending the copyright file. Upstream author is using 1.3. I will e-mail him regarding the precise form of the modification restriction. This restriction also creates some trickiness for /etc/tex4ht/tex4ht.env --- which is a conffile after all! > * debian/changelog: I have merged all the changelog entries into one. > version - it's from the yearly "release", isn't it?. Also, the new > version is called 1.0 - is there a reason for this? I will make an enquiry with Eitan Gurari regarding this. Currently I have reverted to the earlier versioning scheme with the upstream addition of the time of modification as well. > Please do not close such bugs in the changelog - see Omitted. I clearly should have read developer's reference more carefully! > - Your diff.gz contains quite some stuff that does not seem to be > Debian-specific - e.g. temp/Makefile, manpages. If you or older Debian > maintainers wrote it, was it submitted upstream? If not, where did > you get it from? The files were created by Andrew Gray (previous Debian maintainer). It is unlikely that these will be used upstream as explained in README.src. > To your Point 2: For me, the interesting reason for writing a Makefile > to create the C code would not be to "verify" that it has indeed been > created from the literate programming sources. Rather I'd be > interested in being able to make changes. One could say that what you > wrote is about fulfilling the wording of the DFSG, while what I want > is to be able to use the freedom the spirit of the DFSG gives me. I > suggest you adapt the wording. I agree with you and have made the changes. A much clearer (IMHO) version of README.src is in the newer version. > As a solution for your third point you could simply use a sed script > to replace the version date by the number found in the sources. Or you > could try to fix the creation process - I'm sure there must be a way > to do it with TeX. I might be able to help if you provide what you > wrote so far. What I have is not fit for publication but the shell script for converting tex4ht-c.tex is enclosed. The result matches the existing file precisely and should work for any modifications made to tex4ht-c.tex as well. What I am planning to do is to provide a mechanism for someone who *makes changes* to the files in /src to incorporate these into a new Debian package. > I'd prefer to have some information in the package about which other > packages provide the /usr/bin/ht alternative. There actually used to be a package called "ht". I have referred to the relevant bug (#101220) in the postinst so that this can be changed if necessary. On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 02:21:55PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > > Somehow off this list I got the URL where one can download the packages > > you prepared. > > Which is > > http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/tex4ht/ I'm sorry. I just forgot to check that debian-mentor's was on the cc. > By the way, did you incorporate the other bugfixes on this page, or are > they already in the current version? The current version incorporates all bugfixes over the last year. The documentation typos have been fixed in my version. > * Are you sure that it makes sense to install all the fonts in > /usr/share/texmf/tex4ht/ht-fonts/? In particular, what is the purpose > in having /usr/share/texmf/tex4ht/ht-fonts/win? These fonts are used if one wants to generate an html file for incorporation into MS Word. This is perhaps still not a good enough reason :) Once again many thanks for your detailed suggestions. Regards, Kapil. -- http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/gpg.html for my Public Key. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1024D/5416E5B8 2004-10-13 Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1024g/3BDF565B 2004-10-13 Key fingerprint = F160 CBB9 03C8 425D 4BBA 79F4 491F 8FDA 5416 E5B8 -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
