Bug#220871: tetex-extra: patch available for xy-pic

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Stefan Fink <stefan.fink@hanse.net> wrote:

> There is a patch available for xy-pic at
> http://www-texdev.ics.mq.edu.au/xypic/xymods.tgz
> Among others, it contains bugfixes for xyarrow.tex, xycrayon.tex,
> xycurve.tex, xyframe.tex and xygraph.tex.
> Please integrate it, since the original files are rather old.

Hm, this sounds interesting. However, before we just say "YES!", we
would like to know a little more about this. First of all, who is
developing this, is it the original author of xy-pic? What is the
license of these files?

Can you point us to a place where the development status of these
patches (or rather replacement files, as it seems) is documented
(stable, alpha, beta...)? And can you comment on wether they can not be
found on CTAN? If they were, they would most probably be included into
the next tetex release "automatically" by Thomas Esser.

Thank you for your help,
Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie