Lenny release goals for TeX

General

We should drop the TDS compatibility hack from tex-common ASAP.

What else needs to be done? Should we somehow check all packages that do not use dh_installtex (Build-Depend on tex-common) whether they comply?

This can be divided into a couple of sub-issues:

Build libkpathsea4 from either TeXlive, or a separate pacakge
Make sure that no package Depends on teTeX alone
Make sure that TeXlive is always the primary choice
Make sure that no package Build-Depends on teTeX alone
Make sure that TeXlive is the primary choice for Build-Depends
Make sure that all packages that (even indirectly) Build-Depend on TeX have once been built with TeXlive, and have correct dependencies

There are a couple of possible schemes and timelines to achieve this:

With some warning in advance, drop the teTeX packages completely, see what happens and deal with the mess
Make the teTeX packages transitional packages, see what happens and deal with the (much smaller) mess
Find all packages that (Build-)Depend, Recommend or Suggest any teTeX package, file bug reports and monitor how they are fixed; do the same with respect to TeXlive being (not yet) the primary choice.
any other way to do it?

We should decide which way we prefer, and contact the release team before doing the final decision.

This involves checking all packages, the infrastructure is in tpm2licenses.pl. Hopefully, Rogério and his students will help here.

Document the packaging better, so that the unititiated are able to build a package from SVN.
Package TeXlive 2006, at least.
Decide whether TeXlive continues to work with conffile links and a separate /etc/texmf/texlive, or switch to the teTeX scheme, and implement if needed.

I don't think we should put much work in teTeX, except one thing:

We should inspect each bug on a teTeX package, and check whether it should be closed or reassigned to TeXlive:

Bugs that are clearly associated with teTeX packaging (including some non-reproducible upgrading bugs) can be closed once teTeX vanishes
Bugs that request features, file inclusions etc. can either be closed if the wish is fulfilled in TeXlive, or should be transferred.
Open bugs against packages or executables that also exist in TeXlive should be reassigned/cloned.
There'll probably a couple that don't fit into these categories...

Whether we clone or reassign depends on the timeline of teTeX's vanishing.

Last modified: Mon Dec 11 14:33:51 CET 2006 .