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

[Bill Allombert]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 01:36:22PM +0200, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> 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...

As long as ratpoints is included in Debian, ratpoints users should be able to
use the Debian package even if they do not use 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.

Well, I just did (I know him well).

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

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