The current maintainer of ptex-base, Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <mhatta@debian.org>,
has orphaned this package.

Maintaining a package requires time and skills. Please only adopt this
package if you will have enough time and attention to work on it.

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Some information about this package:

Package: ptex-base
Binary: ptex-base, jbibtex-base
Version: 1:2.5-2.1
Maintainer: Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <mhatta@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 4.0.0), tex-common
Architecture: all
Standards-Version: 3.7.3
Format: 1.0
Files:
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 069cf4f087c7dd46da72893a10807fb7 396209 ptex-base_2.5.orig.tar.gz
 89ae53495bc9c4560c4393486006aaca 5745 ptex-base_2.5-2.1.diff.gz
Checksums-Sha256:
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Package-List:
 jbibtex-base deb tex optional
 ptex-base deb tex optional
Directory: pool/main/p/ptex-base
Priority: source
Section: tex

Package: ptex-base
Version: 1:2.5-2.1
Installed-Size: 6440
Maintainer: Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <mhatta@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Depends: tetex-base | texlive-base, tetex-bin | texlive-base-bin, dpkg (>= 1.14.18), tex-common (>= 3)
Suggests: ptex-bin
Conflicts: platex-base
Description-en: basic ASCII pTeX library files
 ASCII pTeX is a Japanized TeX distribution.
 .
 Together with ptex-bin you have a complete installation.
 .
 Includes: platex
Description-md5: 12375b40ef5f5aec3a9f022573a8628a
Tag: culture::japanese, role::app-data, use::editing, works-with-format::tex,
 works-with::text
Section: tex
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/ptex-base/ptex-base_2.5-2.1_all.deb
Size: 1757896
MD5sum: 4017b88d4beb47734bb07747f1dfb900
SHA256: 83dea9ca81cd184b6f7e8f440716e6eeaa3f31e6115ffcab73a82cd64413d8ac

Package: jbibtex-base
Source: ptex-base
Version: 1:2.5-2.1
Installed-Size: 361
Maintainer: Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <mhatta@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Depends: tetex-base | texlive-base, tetex-bin | texlive-base-bin, dpkg (>= 1.14.18), tex-common (>= 3)
Suggests: jbibtex-bin
Description-en: make a bibliography for ASCII p(La)TeX / NTT j(La)TeX
 This is JBibTeX, a Japanized BibTeX based on the original BibTeX 0.99c.
 JBibTeX can handle Kanji characters (EUC-JP).
 .
 This package contains library files for JBibTeX.  You need to install
 jbibtex-bin to use JBibTeX.
 .
 This is a part of ASCII pTeX distribution,  but you can use this
 program not only with ASCII p(La)TeX but also with NTT j(La)TeX.
Description-md5: 6c6a61b50529b4e40a627054df0adaa0
Tag: culture::japanese, interface::commandline, role::app-data,
 works-with-format::tex, works-with::text
Section: tex
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/ptex-base/jbibtex-base_2.5-2.1_all.deb
Size: 98826
MD5sum: a32991063d3bd7f033390a7f1275f13c
SHA256: e8cc08a7b8367446bdf3e02706d425c416f079f9e1f332634d8cd58307264920

Dear submitter,

as the package ptex-base has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1087913

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

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