[tex-live] missing Adobe AFM files?

[Frank Küster]

karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) wrote:

>     no correspondence between CTAN uploads (directory hierarchies) and tpm
>
> It is not 100%, but usually the correspondence is very close indeed.
> As far as copyright goes, it's not like TL just adds random files to
> what is uploaded.  So I don't see the problem ... in general.

There's no problem for TeXlive, neither legal nor technical.  There's
just a problem for the Debian packages which wanted to create a
comprehensive list that allows to associate copyright information to
individual files:  We wanted to use the existing information in the tpm
files for this purpose.  However, since the psnfss font tpm files
(helvetic.tpm etc.) contain files of different origin, this doesn't
work, or at least needs some special-casing.

> In the specific case of the afm/tfm/etc. font files, it is a horrible
> mess and we have to straighten it out, which will take ages and won't
> happen before this release.  But the ultimate goal would be that we will
> have the files from ctan clearly separated from other files not on CTAN,
> and the "not on CTAN" files would be minimized or eliminated, one way or
> another.  And furthermore that files that are in different packages on
> CTAN would be in different packages in TL.  That's the goal.  Motherhood
> and apple pie.

ACK.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)