[tex-live] psutils maintenance

[Reuben Thomas]

On 15 February 2014 23:59, Jay Berkenbilt <qjb at debian.org> wrote:

> Hello again.  I've left this message marked "unread" in my debian inbox
> since October in hopes of finding the time to deal with it.  I finally
> looked at it today.
>

No problem, none of this is urgent.


> So, in order for me to want to include this in debian over the existing
> version, I would need to see all the programs that were installed with
> the old version.  This is not because I disagree with your conclusions
> about them; it's just that experience convinces me that removing stuff
> will backfire, and the cost of keeping it in is very low.
>

No problem, I'll put them in marked as unmaintained. I'm inclined to take
the Debian versions as you suggest.

I think I'm okay with the debian package having to run ./bootstrap as
> long as it doesn't try to grab anything from the network as this makes
> the build impossible on a non-Internet-connected system.  If I add build
> dependencies on automake and autoconf but not git and use ./bootstrap
> --skip-git --skip-po, it fails.  I think it would be best if I could
> just grab a source tarball in the traditional sense that already has all
> the automatically generated files in it.  This would be easier for
> people who directly download psutils as well.  I might be able to be
> convinced that that's outdated thinking.
>

I'll look into this. For the Debian package, it should work with gnulib as
a build-dep.

I've given up programming for Lent, so I'll look into this after Easter.

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