[Debian-tex-commits] SVN tex-common commit + diffs: r2665 - in
tex-common/trunk: debian doc
Frank Küster
frank at alioth.debian.org
Wed Apr 11 11:15:11 UTC 2007
Author: frank
Date: 2007-04-11 11:15:11 +0000 (Wed, 11 Apr 2007)
New Revision: 2665
Modified:
tex-common/trunk/debian/changelog
tex-common/trunk/doc/Debian-TeX-Policy.sgml
Log:
* Policy: Add a chapter on meta-packages and document that they are
usually not acceptable as dependencies
Modified: tex-common/trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- tex-common/trunk/debian/changelog 2007-04-11 11:08:21 UTC (rev 2664)
+++ tex-common/trunk/debian/changelog 2007-04-11 11:15:11 UTC (rev 2665)
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+tex-common (1.6~1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Document in NEWS.Debian that support for ls-R in TEXMFHOME has been
+ dropped [fk]
+
+ * Policy: Add a chapter on meta-packages and document that they are
+ usually not acceptable as dependencies
+
+ -- Frank Küster <frank at debian.org> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:16:17 +0200
+
tex-common (1.5) unstable; urgency=low
* fix missing tetex component of TEXMFDIST (Closes: #418674)
Modified: tex-common/trunk/doc/Debian-TeX-Policy.sgml
===================================================================
--- tex-common/trunk/doc/Debian-TeX-Policy.sgml 2007-04-11 11:08:21 UTC (rev 2664)
+++ tex-common/trunk/doc/Debian-TeX-Policy.sgml 2007-04-11 11:15:11 UTC (rev 2665)
@@ -187,6 +187,24 @@
</p>
</chapt>
<chapt>
+ <heading>Meta-packages and dependencies</heading>
+ <p>
+ The TeX Live collection of basic and add-on TeX packages
+ provides some meta-packages for the convenience of users.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Depending on the <package>texlive-*</package>
+ or <package>tetex-*</package> metapackages is only acceptable
+ for editors, IDEs and other tools which handle user-generated
+ code. TeX add-on packages, as well as automated input
+ generators etc., must instead depend on a list of individual
+ texlive packages which are actually used.
+ <footnote>This is, for example, required to be able to adapt
+ dependencies of metapackages according to the users'
+ needs. </footnote>
+ </p>
+ </chapt>
+ <chapt>
<heading>File Placement</heading>
<p>
This chapter describes the placement of TeX input files, so that
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