ITA: tetex-beta [WAS: Need a tetex-beta maintainer]

[Nicholas Wourms]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

>Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> writes:
>
>
>>Jerome BENOIT no longer has the time to maintain the tetex-beta package.
>>
>>Any volunteers?
>>
>
>Guess I must move quick now, before someone else snatches this most
>wanted package.
>
>
>
>But seriously, I managed to build teTeX-src-beta-20020530 today.  It's
>still a bit of work before I get this packaged (my mknetrel way), but,
>there it is.  IOW, I'm assuming there's not too much hurry to
>provide a new release.
>
>Any suggestions for renaming the tetex packages?  What if we'd do
>
>   @tetex-beta
>
      ^^^^^^^^^^

I assume this is supposed to be @tetex-base?

>
>   version: <new version>
>   requires: tetex-bin
>
>   @texmf-base
>   version: <new version>
>   requires: tetex-base
>
>etc?
>

Sounds good to me [though you might considier using the proper naming 
i.e. teTeX-bin TeXmf-base ] but I'll let others comment on how to make 
this transition smooth.

>   
>
>>Many thanks to Jerome for his efforts over the last 1+ years.
>>
>
>Yes, a big thanks Jerome.
>
Three Cheers for Jerome!


Can we have Xdvi (included in tetex) now that X11 is part of Cygwin?  In 
fact, you might want to partition the X11 parts into 'teTeX-X11-bin'.

Thanks for offering to take over Jan, perhaps you will then want to add 
lillypond to the official distribution, that way you'd no longer be 
required to maintain a fork distro...


Cheers,
Nicholas