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[Mageia-dev] texi2html

+ Giuseppe Ghibò + ghibomgx at gmail.com +
+ Sun Oct 16 13:05:52 CEST 2011 +

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On 26/09/2011 17:34, Anssi Hannula wrote:
+> On 26.09.2011 15:47, nicolas vigier wrote:
+>> On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Thomas Spuhler wrote:
+>>> But are you sure about texlive providing it?
+>> I don't know. It looks like it's not in the texlive package.
+> My impression (from a few years back I think) is that standalone
+> texi2html is the texlive-era replacement for tetex-texi2html.
+>
+It's not like this. The misalignment in having multiple versions comes
+from having different source of packages. tetex had it's own texi2html
+(so I guess texlive), which is certified and well QA and integrated with
+that tetex version, so it provides "texi2html". At a certain point newer
+versions of texi2html were placed in contrib because they were newer
+(there were also other packages in this situation, xdvi, prosper, etc.)
+and because of not touching the main tetex package. To handle this kind
+of misalignment a good way to proceed would be to go in the main package
+providing it (i.e. tetex/texlive) and try to merge the newer texi2html
+with the new one, then redoing the tests. This often doesn't happen
+because it takes a lot of amount of time, and require to handle with the
+main and bigger package (texlive/tetex), and people often don't do this
+if they are doing "snack packaging".
+
+The other way, which is to transform everything as "pluggable" (e.g.
+split packages at source, so for instance not having tetex providing
+texi2html) IMHO doesn't provide the same amount of certification,
+because the packager (packager not necessarely means the maintainer)
+just upgrade the version number, without taking care of re-testing, and
+in case he doesn't know in deep about that package what he does as side
+effect is to give away the upstream tetex/texlive certification
+(certification that the included, so older, texi2html package works well
+and has no flaws with the rest of the tetex/texlive distro) in favour of
+a newer version (hoping that if something goes wrong or of some bug some
+end-user would file a bug on bugzilla...).
+
+Bye.
+G.
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