[Debian-in-workers] Bug#717636: latex-sanskrit package

[Vasudev Kamath]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 5:04 PM, intrigeri <intrigeri at debian.org> wrote:
> On current sid, with texlive-lang-indic installed:
>
> $ t1disasm /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/sanskrit/sktb10.pfb  | grep start
> dup 3 {systemdict /internaldict known not {pop 3} {1183615869 systemdict /internaldict get exec dup /startlock known {/startlock get exec} {dup /strtlck known {/strtlck get exec} {pop 3} ifelse} ifelse} ifelse} executeonly put
>
> ... seems to indicate that the bug is still present.
>
> Did I miss anything, or are we misunderstanding each other?

Below is mail snippet between me Jaldhar and Norbert, probably
recorded in texlive mailing list.
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Hi Vasudev,

> We (me and Jaldhar) are planning to drop the latex-sanskrit package from

Ok.

> Can you please drop the latex-sanskrit from depends/recommends of above
> package in your next release?..

Sure. We will re-include the "sanskrit" part of TeX Live which
only ships the mf /pfb files and the source of the preprocessor.

> Also I will file bug on above 3 packages if needed, I thought I will
> first contact you guys before filing bug. Please let me know your
> thoughts on this.

There is one thing we should think about: Transition for users of
latex-sanskrit.

If you think it is fine to drop the package completely without
any upgrade path, that is fine with me.

Otherwise we could build a transitional package "latex-sanskrit"
from texlive-lang that just depends on
        texlive-lang-indic
and be gone.

That way you don't have to request removal either, since it is
just a change of maintainer, and at the end will be removed
at some point.

Let me know your opinion and I will implement it for TL 2014,
(which will probably never enter Debian if we don't get a new libpng)
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We acked to drop binaries and only ship required source as part of
texlive-lang-indic. So yes the bug still holds right but not sure if
it should be reassigned to texlive-lang src or kept on latex-sanskrit.
Also bug is ignored for jessie!.

Sorry for not including this earlier conversation. I had to re-read it
to understand the concept


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