Hijacking TeXMaker by Debian Science Team

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Hijacking TeXMaker by Debian Science Team

by Andreas Tille :: Rate this Message:

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Hi,

there are several open bugs in the TeXMaker package that are not RC enough
to justify a NMU but the fact that they are not even answered by the maintainer
to acknowledge that he has registered the problems makes me wonder whether
the maintainer is MIA.  So I started some action [1] and fixed 4 out of 6 bugs
while most probably the remaining bugs are upstream issues.  I would also
volunteer to care for these remaining ones - perhaps they are even fixed in
the new upstream version.  I also fixed all except one lintian issues and
added a doc-base file.  Moreover I did a general polishing of packaging.

I hope that Joseph (the maintainer) agrees to the team maintenance and
that we could go for an upload soon.  I wonder what would be the right
thing to do if we get no answer from him after about one week.

My main motivation was to get a recent TeXMaker version into Debian.
I don't use it myself but would be willing to take some care inside
a maintaining team because I have some friends who might regard this
a helpful tool to start with LaTeX.

Kind regards

          Andreas.

[1] svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-science/typesetting/texmaker/trunk/

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Re: Hijacking TeXMaker by Debian Science Team

by Daniel Leidert :: Rate this Message:

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Am Mittwoch, den 28.05.2008, 17:03 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille:

> there are several open bugs in the TeXMaker package that are not RC enough
> to justify a NMU

Did I miss something? Why need bugs to have an RC status to get fixed by
NMU? As long as you follow the best practices, you can fix all bugs by
NMU.

Regards, Daniel


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Re: Hijacking TeXMaker by Debian Science Team

by Andreas Tille :: Rate this Message:

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On Wed, 28 May 2008, Daniel Leidert wrote:

>> there are several open bugs in the TeXMaker package that are not RC enough
>> to justify a NMU
>
> Did I miss something? Why need bugs to have an RC status to get fixed by
> NMU? As long as you follow the best practices, you can fix all bugs by
> NMU.

OK, NMU rules are relaxed, but I would prefer to stick to RC bugs.  But in
this case I do not only talk about NMU but about hijacking / tacking over
the package completely by Debian Science.  What do you think about this?

Kind regards

         Andreas.

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