Re: [hlx] GIFs and PNGs

[Roland S. <st...@an...>]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 23:44, Steven Augart wrote:
> Is there any way I can help make such a release happen?  I am packing 
> up Jikes RVM for Debian.  The user's guide is written using 
> Hyperlatex.  Because "hyperlatex" is still not in "main" on Debian, 
> including the Hyperlatex-formatted user's manual would keep us from 
> being in main on Debian.  And I would really like to ship with a 
> working user's manual.

You can decide to (temporarily) put the precompiled manual (and the
sources) into the package. Then, it doesn't need to build-depend on
hyperlatex. That's what the python maintainers in Debian did when I had
to move latex2html to non-free.

> Alternatively, Roland, would you be willing to put a snapshot into 
> Debian/testing, as a stopgap?

Unfortunately, since the release of Debian "sarge" is near (supposedly
some weeks ahead), and Debian is known for rather staying with "stable"
packages than with latest releases, I certainly can't do that right now.

This doesn't mean that I won't incorporate new versions of packages into
Debian, but at this point in the release cycle, we prefer putting the
latest versions of upstream (i.e. Tom's hyperlatex :) rather to the
"experimental" distribution. When after some time the bug reports don't
overwhelm, we can decide on a case by case basis to move it to
unstable/testing.

After the release of the next stable Debian version, it is no problem
anymore.

bye,
  Roland