Bug#251761: tetex-extra: caption.sty still missing despite license change
On 31.05.04 Reuben Thomas (rrt@sc3d.org) wrote:
> >Yes, this seems to be now up to the submitter. Should we do so or is
> >caption2 an acceptable substitute for you? The latest caption2 is
> >obsolete. In the next teTeX-release you have to use again
> >caption.sty.
>
> I'm happy to use caption2.sty for the moment as it seems to work,
> but I have one last suggestion which might make both of us happier:
> how about copying caption2.sty to caption.sty and adding a line at
> the top:
>
> \typeout{WARNING: caption.sty not available, using caption2.sty}
>
Well, we could just leave a softlink called caption.sty pointing to
caption2.sty. LaTeX itself will print a warning:
LaTeX Warning: You have requested package `caption',
but the package provides `caption2'.
Hmm. Your idea seem to be more understandable to the end user...
H.
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