Re: package sources on ftp.archlinux.org

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Stefan Husmann a écrit :
> Aaron Griffin schrieb:
>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Firmicus <Firmicus@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I don't know about the texlive-*-doc packages from community, which are
>>> maintained by Stefan Hussman. Feel free to ask him directly or to
>>> file a
>>> bug report.
>>> <snip>
>>
>> It's also possible that the -doc packages are farther behind, and
>> sources have been removed for those simply because they're not up to
>> speed with the official texlive packages
>>
> Hello,
>
> the -doc packages are far behind because I did not manage to build
> them correctly, i.e to download the doc packages in a similar way
> Firmicus does for the normal packages. I did not upload the zip-files
> to ftp.archlinux.org because I do not see a reason for doing so and
> the packages are quite big. No user probably wants
> to update a the packages that way or will be able to do so.
> Regards Stefan Husmann

The reason for doing so is simple: the TeXLive license *requires* us to
provide the sources :)

BTW if you have problems with my texlive-scripts, feel free to ask ;)

FC



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