[Pkg-texlive-maint] Re: TeX live for Debian upload to unstable - Call for testers

[Frank Küster]

Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:

> Please test it. I want to ask Neil to do an upload next week. It has
> been about 4 months since -1 entered experimental, so I guess it istime
> for a new release.

Congratulations!  Let me do some nitpicking:  I find the changelog
hardly readable.  First of all, it goes from bottom to the top, which
isn't the usual direction of reading.  Granted - that's how changelogs
work, but within a given "stanza" one is used to read them from top to
bottom like normal.

Second, it contains many entries that override earlier ones, like 

>   10.04.2006 NP
>   * let texlive-lang-cyrillic conflict with tetex due to /usr/bin/ru*
>   01.03.2006 NP
>   * make all texlive-lang-* packages working with tetex3, but add a
>     README file explaining the situation for duplicate languages.
>   * only recommend dvipdfmx, so we can go for the upload
>   28.02.2006 NP
>   * allow various texlive-lang-* packages to work with tetex3
>   25.02.2006 NP
>   * Let texlive-base depend on the new NMU of dvipdfmx and blacklist it.
>   * Try to stop the build system to build dvipdfmx.

This should really be merged to something like

* make all texlive-lang-* packages work with teTeX 3, but add a README
  file explaining the situation for duplicate languages.  Only
  texlive-lang-cyrillic still conflicts because of the duplicate
  executables. 
* Do not build dvipdfmx, instead Recommend it

(isn't recommends what you generally decided for external packages,
somewhere else in this changelog?  And the explanation "so we can go for
the upload" doesn't explain anything to me).

Generally you should keep in mind that the changelog is intended for
Debian users, not for the maintainer of the package.  It's not a big
issue for the first upload to unstable, but for subsequent uploads, you
should really change this IMHO.

Gruß, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)