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[Frank Küster] teTeX is gone, beware of build-dependencies

Hi, here's a draft for the announcement to d-d-a.  Comments welcome.
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Dear fellow developers,

the Debian TeX Task force is currently preparing an upload to unstable
of TeXLive 2007.  With this version, teTeX will vanish as a separate
package and only continue to exist as transitional packages.

The transitional packages were designed to give users a sensible choice
of TeX stuff, depending on whether they had tetex-extra or only
tetex-bin installed.  

They were *not* designed to minimize breakage for packages which
build-depend on teTeX: Be therefore prepared to experience some
breakage.  Note that many packages use a TeX system to create PS or PDF
documenation even if they do not explicitly Build-Depend on tetex, by
using debiandoc-sgml, linuxdoc-tools-latex or similar converters.

If you experience FTBFS problems (or, in the worst case, missing or
buggy documents if the build system is too lazy in checking its
results), please send X-Debbugs-CC to debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org.
We plan to use the usertags "builddep-tetex-ftbfs" and
"builddep-tetex-buggy" for those cases (for the user
debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org). 

For the TeX Task Force, 
Frank
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Dr. Frank K.üster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Z.ürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

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