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

[Stefan Fink <stefan.fink@hanse.net>]

> 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.
On the xy-pic mailinglist (http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/xy-pic/), it was 
one of the original authors, Ross Moore, who pointed me to this patch.
I think the license is GPL, since the original files were published 
under its terms.

Hope this helps,
Stefan.