Bug#150778: tetex-extra: Add (symlinks to get) versioned amslatex .sty's for arXiv

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 28.04.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de> wrote:

Hi all,

> >> Furthermore - do you have any implementation ideas for the switch
> >> mechanism? 
> > You don't need to switch, it's just that there are many documents out
> > there that rely on the older versions. Thus, I'd recommend adding the
> > *2000 versions.
> 
> Thomas Esser has refused to do this upstream, he generally does not
> include old versions (would probably lead to a big bloat of the
> package). 
> 
> However, it's probably trivial to create a separate Debian package for
> this.
> 
So, we should rephrase the request and swap over that bug to wnpp as
wishlist. IIRC there is already a separate LaTeX 2.09 package.

H. 
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