On Sa, 19 Dez 2009, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
But what happens then? Luatex becomes dependent on an external library that may or may not be distributed by debian (or anyone else)?
No, only that as long as the libraries in texlua are the same as upstream I can reuse the the packages in Debian. And the advantage for you is that there are less changes if you incorporate new versions of upstream libraries. I didn't suggest to actually remove the sources from your code! Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST, Japan TU Wien, Austria Debian TeX Task Force DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ `Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.' you should send that in to the "Reader's Digest". They've got a page for people like you.' --- Ford convincing Arthur to drink three pints in ten --- minutes at lunchtime. --- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy