Bug#261751: tetex-extra: contains older version of colortbl.sty
Holger von Rhein <lortas@freenet.de> wrote:
>>install recent version in /usr/share? Install that stuff in
>>/usr/local/share or /opt/share?
>
> No, location of colortbl should stay /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/carlisle
> Just the source could be an other deb-package.
This will lead to a chaos, unless one develops the two packages in close
cooperation, to make sure that always upgrades won't in fact downgrade
that file. Replacing files in an "foreign" package is a difficult thing.
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:20:54AM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> I was not talking of teTeX, i just talk about a single ctan package.
But _we_ are the maintainers of teTeX.
>>> 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.
>
> As long there are debian users, there always will be a next guy.
> And why not be nice to users, if it is just a small favor.
It's simply too much work for us. Go ahead.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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