Move from TeTeX to TeXLive

[Leo]

On 2007-02-05, Jindrich Novy said:

> On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 14:29 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>> On Friday, 10 November 2006 at 14:48, Jindrich Novy wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 13:15 +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>> > > http://www.tetexrpm.org/texjive.html
>> > 
>> > Yes, I made TeXLive upstream aware of Michael's work, so adopting his
>> > work is also an option.
>> 
>> How about asking him to become a mainainer for Fedora first and then, if he
>> doesn't want to, adopting his work.
>
> I asked Michael about adoption of texjive already about month ago and
> got this reply:
>
> <snip>
> Due to increased work, a book I'm writing, and a new hobby (snake
> breeding) - I've pretty much decided to just be a user for awhile (of
> both Fedora and LaTeX) so that tex packaging I was looking into - I'm
> not updating what's there anymore, it's dead.
> </snip>
>
> So I asked about the texjive project adoption:
>
> <snip>
>> Would you mind if I eventually base the new texlive packaging on your
>> texjive project?
>
> Go ahead. I've no problems with it at all if it is of value.
> </snip>
>
> So I decided to base the texlive packaging on the Michael's work and the
> packages should enter the review process shortly.
>
> Jindrich

Thank you for the effort.

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