Bug#561836: include revtex4 in addition to revtex4.1
Package: texlive-publishers
Version: 2009-7
Severity: normal
So, what is the consensus on this? The last comment I saw in the
thread on this bug was about that there was no need for replacement,
but I fail to see how a mere _addition_ could be understood as a
replacement...
It seems that upstream is not going to provide a wrapper for revtex4,
that means that internally, on their production servers, they are
going to keep two separate versions (and this is correct, because it
is a way to keep bug-for-bug compatibility with the papers prepared
for the older class). What Debian should do in this case is to
simply follow this practice, IMO.
This is a nuisance to have to change the preambula of my own old
papers just to let them compile. This is an unnecessary change. Of
course, I can install revtex4 just for myself locally, but is it a
Debian way? I do not think so.
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