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

Tobias Hansen thansen at debian.org
Mon Apr 28 11:36:22 UTC 2014


On 04/28/2014 01:12 PM, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 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.

It is needed for Sage...

> At least the binary has a --help options.
>
> Did you already ask Michael Stoll if he had the TeX source ? 

Yes, but maybe I should ask another time.

Best,
Tobias



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