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Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 18:46:31 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
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Subject: Re: move texmf-* out of test?
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> writes:
> 
> 
>>>As tetex-beta-20001218-4 (now in curr) and texmf-*-20000804-2 seem to
>>>work well together, can we remove the test marker from texmf?
>>>
>>You are the maintainer; it is your decision.
>>
>>I don't know of any hard rule about "three weeks" -- whatever you, as
>>the maintainer, think is appropriate for your packages, is good.
>>
> 
> Indeed, I reread setup.html; must have dreamt it up.  But how do I go
> about moving texmf-* to curr?  Would this asking here be enough?


Right now, yes -- it requires someone with a shell account on sourceware 
to edit the setup.hint file -- or scp up a new copy of the setup.hint 
file -- which contains the necessary changes.


> No big problems have shown up, it seems a waste to release a new
> version (-3) of such a large package (~30mb binaries, 30mb sources)
> without major changes.


Sounds like you have a reasonable basis for your decision. :-)  Do you 
want me to fixup texmf*/setup.hint?

--Chuck