[debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Bug#321942: Coordinating upload of teTeX-3.0 to unstable

[Frank Küster]

Adeodato Simó <asp16 at alu.ua.es> wrote:

> * Frank Küster [Mon, 08 Aug 2005 12:39:04 +0200]:
>
>> You can stop all build-depending on debiandoc-sgml: It has the classical
>> bug that produces PDF output with teTeX-3.0 even when dvi is desired,
>> causing almost everything to FTBFS.  I've not yet submitted a bug,
>> because I'm still testing the patch.
>
>> Should I file it as important and bump the severity to grave only when
>> teTeX-3.0 is unstable?  Or should I file as grave at once?
>
>   Is the patch backwards compatible? (i.e., when used with teTeX-2.0,
>   will be the output correct?) If so, I would file at important and
>   ask for the patch to be applied ASAP; and NMU prior to uploading
>   teTeX-3.0 if it has not been fixed by then.

Yes, it is backward compatible.  It would have worked with woody (and
should in fact have been applied back then).

This is also true for the same problem in sgml2latex from linuxdoc-tools.

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer