Bug#215925: marked as forwarded (package "index" dislikes "\backmatter")
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has caused the Debian Bug report #215925,
regarding package "index" dislikes "\backmatter"
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>.
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To: Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
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Subject: Re: Bug#215925: additional info
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Hi Thomas Esser,
you might be aware of this, but I couldn't find anything in the
archives:
index.sty as shipped with current tetex is a style for
\LaTeX 2.09. Personally I don't see a lot of sense in shipping this, and
it provokes that users say \usepackage{index} when in fact they mean
\usepackage{makeidx}.=20
Furthermore, there's index.sty from the camel directory, which is for
\LaTeX2e, but is declared beta (and camel altogether is alpha). I don't
have the information to judge wether this is worth including. But
anyway, I would consider excluding the old index.sty.
If we keep it in, we should urge it's author (or do it ourselves, if
this is acceptable) to include a note that it is deprecated, either in
the documentation, or as a warning when run through LaTeX2e, or both. We
can't expect of a new user in 2003 that he knows that packages dating
back before 1994 most probably are for 2.09.
Ein sch=F6ner Gru=DF, Frank
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Frank K=FCster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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