[xml/sgml-pkgs] Re: [ITH] xmltex, passivetex, offer to take over jadetex

[Ardo van Rangelrooij]

Daniel Leidert (daniel.leidert.spam at gmx.net) wrote:
> Am Montag, den 23.04.2007, 15:46 +0200 schrieb Frank K?ster:
> 
> > in the last months or even years, xmltex and passivetex have been
> > basically unmaintained (and they *do* have bugs), and responses from the
> > list which is listed as maintainer are very rare.  jadetex is actually
> > maintained by you, Ohura-san, but maybe gets not as much care as it
> > could have - and anyway the coordination with the TeX Task Force could
> > be better than we currently manage for a package so tightly coupled to
> > TeX.
> > 
> > On the other hand, integration of these three components into TeXLive
> > has already been accomplished upstream, and we only cut them out because
> > they existed as separate packages already in the days of teTeX only.
> 
> I already saw that and wanted to contact you to talk about a possible
> overhanding of xmltex (I saw, that the xmltex page says, it's part of
> texlive).
> 
> > We therefore intend to essentially take over xmltex and passivetex,
> 
> No objections from me. I CCed Ardo van Rangelrooij, who seems
> responsible for xmltex as part of the Debian XML/SGML group.

No objections from me also.

Thanks,
Ardo
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