[debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Re: Bug#403200: maint-guide: FTBFS: --> latex-cjk-*

[Frank Küster]

Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) <danai.sae-han at edpnet.be> wrote:

> Well, I made the font packages a recommendation instead of a
> dependency on a user's request, and it seemed quite legitimate: s/he
> had his/her own fonts and didn't want the dozens of extra MB of fonts
> s/he would never use.

Which is a very understandable wish.

> So the question is: do we force all users to download fonts worth
> dozens of MB of bandwith, so we make it easier for the few packages
> that depend on CJK to just (build-)depend on one package instead of
> three?  I'm inclined not to prefer this solution though.

I agree.  If there are still FTBFS problems due to the switch from
cjk-latex (and I don't think *this* one has any connection with the
switch), I assume they will be detected by the QA efforts of Lucas and
others.  For new packages, it's the responsibility of the maintainers to
properly test their packages.  Just like any other Build-Dependency.

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