Bug#148640: Please include picinpar.sty again

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

C.M. Connelly wrote:
> severity 148640 wishlist
> thanks
> 
> "Joey" == Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>
> 
> 
>     Joey> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/dvips.def)))
>     Joey> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/humanist.sty)
> 
>     Joey> ! LaTeX Error: File `picinpar.sty' not found.
> 
>     Joey> Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed, or enter new
>     Joey> name. (Default extension: sty) ---------------
> 
>     Joey> it looks that picinpar.sty is only available in
>     Joey> tetex-src but not in a binary tetex package.  It would
>     Joey> be nice to copy it back into some binary package.
> 
> picinpar.sty was removed because it had no copyright or
> distribution statement, which meant that we had no permission to
> distribute it (according to the general opinion of folks on
> debian-legal).

Oh, ic.

> 
> The license has now been updated (to the GPL!); however, that
> version of the style is not in the upstream texmf tarball that we
> use to build tetex-base, tetex-extra, and tetex-doc.
> 
> So picinpar.sty will be back when we update the texmf tree.  I'm
> not sure what our plans are on that front -- Thomas Esser
> (upstream) hasn't made an official release, but we have packaged
> beta versions in the past.

Please note that it's included in tetex-src.  Hence, I have some
diffficulties understanding why we are allowed to distribute it
in tetex-src but not in tetex-extra. :-)

Regards,

	Joey

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