On Wed, 01 Jan 2025, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:

I do not send e-mails to upstream if I have to acquire an account.

Then your patches will just end up in the bit nirvana.

It is not the job of the Debian TeX team to track down up-up-stream and
forward patches. Hilmar has already forwarded the patches to our
upstream, which is TeX Live. And they take what their upstream authors
provide.

It is your decision.

Norbert

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Hi Hilmar,

On Thu, 02 Jan 2025, Hilmar Preuße wrote:

Then your patches will just end up in the bit nirvana.

They do not, but the processing can be delayed heavily (years if one is unlucky). So directly speaking to the upstream author raises drastically the

Yes, that is what I meant. The patches of course remain somewhere in the
BTS forever.

Let me know if this was the wrong way to address the issue. I'm willing to speak to upstream authors, but this may take time...

All fine from your side. For the patches that concern TeX Live internal
man pages, Karl will apply them. For those coming from third-party
sources, one needs to talk to up-upstream.

Best regards, and Happy New Year!

Norbert

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