Bug#745810: libratpoints-dev: please provide the ratpoints executable.

Bill Allombert ballombe at debian.org
Mon Apr 28 11:12:10 UTC 2014


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:47:29AM +0200, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> my reasoning was that the executable is rather useless without the
> documentation, which is non-free (pdf without the tex source).

I do not understand: byt this reasonning, this package being a C library
without documentation, which is not used by any other packages in Debian, is
completly useless.

At least the binary has a --help options.

Did you already ask Michael Stoll if he had the TeX source ? 

> Of course
> I could provide the executable and point to the website for
> documentation. Would you find that more useful?

By a large margin.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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