Benjamin BAYART wrote: > > > During my discussions with DDs, I found there is currently no solution > > > > This is where you are wrong. The correct way to handle this, is to be > > part of a team, working on the tex packages and providing fixes, and if > > there is an upload needed, a DD member of the team can make the upload. > > > > This is how many of the debian teams involving non-DDs work, and is the > > way of the future for debian, to have more team maintained package > > groups. > > That can be part of a solution. As far as I remember, there was nothing > like a TeX team last time I tried to bing patches to such software, but > perhaps I did not look closely enough.
At least this is the case for the TeX Live packages included in Debian. They even are officially maintained by: | Maintainer: Debian TeX Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At least in case of TeX Live packages there might be a way for you to contribute fixes directly from time to time. > In the TeX team, or in relation with TeX team, are some great experts, > and I do interract well with them when there is an opportunity. By the > way, what is done now in the combination of TeXlive and Debian is very > close to (and seem to take some ideas from) concepts I did present in a > TUG meeting at Oxford in 2000. Wow. Regards, Joey -- No question is too silly to ask, but, of course, some are too silly to answer. -- Perl book -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]