Bug#261751: tetex-extra: contains older version of colortbl.sty
On 25.08.04 Holger von Rhein (lortas@freenet.de) wrote:
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
Hi,
> > 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.
>
What do you speak about? That we've updated some packages from CTAN
and Debian contains more recent versions than original teTeX 2.0.2?
That was mostly done in cases, where the teTeX 2.0.2 had a non free
license statement or a non-wishlist bug. Yes, we've added
hyphenations patterns from CTAN to close wishlist bugs.
> Split tetex-extra in tetex-extra and something like tetex-ctan.
>
tetex-ctan as new package? What should it do? Divert all files and
install recent version in /usr/share? Install that stuff in
/usr/local/share or /opt/share?
> And let do the tetex-ctan maintainer the "additional work".
>
Any volunteers for that job? I'm afraid it won't be less hard than
our one.
> It is not a good idea to provide 2 year old software, while there
> is a newer version.
>
There is no newer teTeX release until now.
> 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.
>
Perl has a perl policy, which describes how to add additional
packages. Yes, we had already the discussion to spilt off some
packages out of tetex e.g. KOMA, hyperref etc. To do that we need an
own policy. This is a post sarge issue.
> But at all, what is so hard to replase a few files to be up-to-date
> with colortbl?
>
If we do that the next guy comes around the corner and asks us, why
we don't update e.g. KOMA.
H.
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