Bug#261751: tetex-extra: contains older version of colortbl.sty

[Holger von Rhein <lortas@freenet.de>]

Hi,

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>Generally, we have a hard enough piece of work in packaging teTeX and
>communicating bugs,

Do not misunderstand the following position, you are doing great work
and I honor it. I use tetex, too.

But,

>and cannot do the additional work of updating
>individual packages from CTAN. Instead, we wait for a new upstream
>release of teTeX.

Thats the wrong intention.
If you are saying that some CTAN packages aren't the core of tetex-extra
and you didn't want any additional work for updating those.
Be consistent and leave it.
Split tetex-extra in tetex-extra and something like tetex-ctan.

And let do the tetex-ctan maintainer the "additional work".

It is not a good idea to provide 2 year old software, while there is
a newer version.

Finally have a look at the perl packages. Those maintainer have a similar
challenge. There is perl and there is CPAN. To be flexible with the
updates on CPAN each module has its own packages. Seems to work fine.


But at all, what is so hard to replase a few files to be up-to-date
with colortbl?


Bye,
Holger