Bug#261751: tetex-extra: contains older version of colortbl.sty
Holger von Rhein <lortas@freenet.de> schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
[...]
>>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".
We have talked about things like that yet, and I was thinking (or did
somebody else suggest it?) to use /usr/share/site-texmf/ for packages
that want to install TeX input files that should "shadow" tetex-base's
or tetex-extra's versions.
You are wellcome to create and maintain such a package. Go ahead. If you
are not yet a Debian Developer, I will be happy to sponsor your upload.
> It is not a good idea to provide 2 year old software, while there is
> a newer version.
It is a good idea to provide stable software in such a manner that we
can manage it. We, the group currently working on Debian's teTeX
packages, could not manage to keep track of CTAN.
> But at all, what is so hard to replase a few files to be up-to-date
> with colortbl?
Everybody will come and ask this question, just that "colortbl" will be
replaced by some random package from CTAN.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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