Bug 106188 – dev-tex/letterspacing-20051018.ebuild (New Package)

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ulrich Müller 2005-09-16 06:55:15 UTC]

Hello,

Please find attached letterspacing-1.0.0.ebuild, providing letterspacing.tex
and letterspace.sty.

letterspacing.tex used to be included in teTeX up to version 2.
It was removed from the teTeX-3 distribution; as far as I understand,
due to license issues with the TeXLive CD. This ebuild adds the old
functionality back.

As category I suggest dev-tex.

Uli

[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2005-09-16 06:56:39 UTC]

Created attachment 68579 [details]
letterspacing-1.0.0.ebuild

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2005-10-17 23:42:54 UTC]

I have asked the author, Phil Taylor, about the licence issue. He says that
the information on CTAN about the package (i.e. LPPL) is wrong. However, he is
willing to re-think the licence. Stay tuned...

[Comment 3 Ulrich Müller 2005-10-17 23:53:49 UTC]

Created attachment 70911 [details]
letterspacing-1.0.0.ebuild

HOMEPAGE and SRC_URI have changed on CTAN.

[Comment 4 Ulrich Müller 2005-10-18 14:18:32 UTC]

Created attachment 70973 [details]
New licence for the package

Phil has submitted a new version of letterspacing to CTAN today,
containing attached licence.

[Comment 5 Ulrich Müller 2005-10-19 01:11:51 UTC]

With the new licence, letterspacing.tex can be re-included in the main
teTeX distribution; Thomas Esser has confirmed this. So there is no need
for a separate letterspacing package.

Resolving as Upstream.

[Comment 6 Ulrich Müller 2006-07-14 16:41:27 UTC]

Reopening... it is not in tetex-3.0_p1 which was now announced to be the last tetex version.

[Comment 7 Ulrich Müller 2006-07-24 06:42:05 UTC]

This is now in the Sunrise overlay. You can find it at:
http://gentoo-sunrise.org/svn/reviewed/dev-tex/letterspacing/

[Comment 8 Ulrich Müller 2008-09-12 05:56:21 UTC]

letterspacing.tex is included in dev-texlive/texlive-genericrecommended. Therefore, I think that it makes sense to resolve this as WONTFIX, and also remove dev-tex/letterspacing from Sunrise.

Alexis, any opinion?

[Comment 9 Alexis Ballier 2008-10-03 15:03:48 UTC]

(In reply to comment #8)
> letterspacing.tex is included in dev-texlive/texlive-genericrecommended.
> Therefore, I think that it makes sense to resolve this as WONTFIX, and also
> remove dev-tex/letterspacing from Sunrise.
> 
> Alexis, any opinion?

It seems I hadn't seen this :)

And totally agreed; unless we suddenly have half a dozen of new fresh blood willing to maintain single tex packages instead of reusing texlive's ones.

As a side note, I try not to touch texlive*recommended packages because, well, they are recommended :) while i'm fine with removing stuff from texlive*extra and revive old ebuilds. (but this is just a matter of how much time I have and there is no technical problem with using single packages instead of texlive's collections)

[Comment 10 Ulrich Müller 2008-10-14 21:26:55 UTC]

Removed from Sunrise.