Karl Berry wrote: > In short, I see no reason to blacklist texlive. Blacklisting it would result in release-critical bugs in roughly 1/4 of the packages, as they will fail to build and/or work at all. Too many things (build-)depend on TeX (nothing wrong in that, of course).
Debian (Norbert & Frank, who are also active upstream, right?) have been removing non-free *parts* in stable, and ignoring bugs in stable/unstable that are known to be fixed upstream in TeX Live >= 2007, or even just rm'ed in TeX' SVN repository upstream.
