Bug#251761: tetex-extra: caption.sty still missing despite license change
On 31.05.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
Hi,
> 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.
>
Well, if we're doing that, we could include the new LaTeX release....
I'm afraid we'll get bug reports about not building formats shortly
after sarge-release, cause the 30 month will be over soon. :-(
> > 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...
>
> 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.
>
I'm not sure, if this is really easy. You're the package maintainer
and should know about this. IIRC it was rather hard to do.
H.
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