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

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> On 31.05.04 stefan-ulrich.nntp@zen.co.uk (stefan-ulrich.nntp@zen.co.uk) wrote:
>> 
>> A slightly more LaTeX-like way might be to create a wrapper caption.sty
>> containing:
>> 
[...]
> Using \RequirePackageWithOptions{caption2} did the trick then. Thanks
> very much for the hint! I think, we'll use then:
>
> %%% caption.sty is not contained in this Debian version, see
> %%% http://bugs.debian.org/251761
> \PackageWarningNoLine{caption}{caption.sty not available, using caption2.sty}
> \RequirePackageWithOptions{caption2}

Such a wrapper package will make support and debugging really
hard. People will write minimal examples:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}
...

and get the output that others would get with
\usepackage{caption2}

Of course it will resolve itself once \filelist is used, but then people
will again diagnose the Debian People to be insane. At least I fear
this. 

I think we should either say that, since we can live with tetex 2.0.2 in
sarge, we can also live with the old caption.sty readded, or that we
can't and add the new caption.sty.

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