However, this is not true for caption(2) in 2.0.2. Do you really need caption
I think not (I just replaced \usepackage{caption} with \usepackage{caption2} and it seems to work; admittedly this is not my document). Perhaps you could put a note about this in the package, maybe a dummy caption.sty that prints out an error?
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