move texmf-* out of test?
Charles Wilson
cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Wed Apr 3 15:47:00 GMT 2002
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu> writes:
>
>
>>>As tetex-beta-20001218-4 (now in curr) and texmf-*-20000804-2 seem to
>>>work well together, can we remove the test marker from texmf?
>>>
>>You are the maintainer; it is your decision.
>>
>>I don't know of any hard rule about "three weeks" -- whatever you, as
>>the maintainer, think is appropriate for your packages, is good.
>>
>
> Indeed, I reread setup.html; must have dreamt it up. But how do I go
> about moving texmf-* to curr? Would this asking here be enough?
Right now, yes -- it requires someone with a shell account on sourceware
to edit the setup.hint file -- or scp up a new copy of the setup.hint
file -- which contains the necessary changes.
> No big problems have shown up, it seems a waste to release a new
> version (-3) of such a large package (~30mb binaries, 30mb sources)
> without major changes.
Sounds like you have a reasonable basis for your decision. :-) Do you
want me to fixup texmf*/setup.hint?
--Chuck
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