Bug#251761: tetex-extra: caption.sty still missing despite license change

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> drachi:[caption] >dvi2tty caption2.dvi |head -n 30
>                    The caption2 package*
>                         Axel Sommerfeldt
>                     caption@sommerfeldt.net
>                             2003/11/12
> This package is obsolete!
> <snap>
>
> However, this is not true for caption(2) in 2.0.2.
> Do you really need caption or is caption2 OK for you? 

If 2.0.2 is going to become sarge's teTeX, we should have an updated
package. However, if we build a new orig.tar.gz anyway, we can as well
include the new, up-to-date caption package, instead of caption2 which
is newer than the caption.sty that is in upstream's tar.gz.

> The problem is,
> that caption.sty is not contained in the orig.tar.gz uploaded to
> debian.org. I've no clue, if we can simply generate another
> orig.tar.gz and upload this one. Yes, we could put it into diff.gz...
> Hmm, we'll think about that.

It might be a good idea to create and upload a new orig.tar.gz before
sarge is released. Not only to put caption.sty back in, but also to
remove some packages with bad licenses, that are not in our binary
packages, but still in the source package.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie