Re: outdated teTeX for debian?
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 04:18:13PM +0100, Rolf Marvin B?e Lindgren wrote:
> [Julian Gilbey]
>
> | If you're running slink (Debian 2.1), please upgrade your tetex-*
> | packages to fixed versions. If you're running potato (Debian 2.2),
> | you should simply be receiving warning messages.
>
> it is customary for some distributions (such as MikTeX for Wintel) to
> include a separate upgrade package to ensure that the LaTeX distribution
> is up-to-date. something to think about? it's not difficult, just a
> lot of work :)
I believe that it is being considered. However, your complaint was
originally that tetex was "broken", not that LaTeX was out of date. I
agree that it is something worth looking into; although LaTeX only
tends to change very slightly between releases; most effort is going
into LaTeX3 development.
Julian
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