Re: LaTeX/AMS-LaTeX Update Approach

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

Atsuhito Kohda writes:
 > > > and AMS-LaTeX code is infrequently updated).  That leaves teTeX
 > > > users with a difficult decision to make: Stick with the older
 > > > LaTeX and AMS-LaTeX distributions for the sake of easy maintenance
 > > > or do a fairly significant amount of work to update those
 > > > distributions themselves.
 > > 
 > > Yes this is really a big problem for me and I proposed
 > > an update of LaTeX in debian-devel@lists.debian.org some
 > > times ago but unfortunately it was not accepted.
 > > 
 > > > format files during the installation process.  I suggest that
 > > > these updates be installed in a third texmf tree (perhaps
 > > > something like /usr/share/texmf-debian), and that the installation
 > > > process would update the teTeX configuration files to add that
 > > > tree to the search paths, presumably between /usr/local/lib/texmf
 > > > and /usr/share/texmf (so that local files would still override the
 > > > official system files).  Dependencies could be set up so that
 > 
 > What is or is anything going on in this direction?
 > 

Well, we decided to package the beta versions of teTeX which should
have mosttimes the most recent package versions.

Christoph