Out-of-Date LaTeX in Woody

["C.M. Connelly" <cmc@debian.org>]

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Am I right in thinking that, at this point, we will be shipping an
out-of-date LaTeX distribution that's going to spew ``LaTeX too
old'' errors for anyone doing a fresh install?

Is there anything we can do about that?   I know Thomas Esser
isn't planning a new release of teTeX proper until the end of the
year (waiting on a new web2c release), but is there any way that
we could convince him to update the LaTeX stuff in a beta, and
only update the tetex-base and tetex-extra packages?

Failing that, we could use Giuseppe Ghibo's updates (at
CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/linux/teTeX/current/contrib/ghibo/).

And, failing that, we could do our own update.

I'm concerned that we're going to be shipping teTeX packages that
people are going to perceive as being ``broken'' right out of the
box.  It looks like Red Hat is in the same boat, but I'd rather be
on the ship or even the shore....

   CMC

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