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

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 02.06.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> > On 31.05.04 stefan-ulrich.nntp@zen.co.uk (stefan-ulrich.nntp@zen.co.uk) wrote:

Hi,

> >> A slightly more LaTeX-like way might be to create a wrapper
> >> caption.sty containing:
> >> 
> > %%% 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}
> 
Nope. The LaTeX-run will spit a big fat warning:

Package caption Warning: caption.sty not available, using caption2.sty.

I don't know, if this is enough. Hmm, all people using an IDE (e.g.
Emacs) will see the log only on request. On the other hand caption2
is said to be more robust and bug free. Maybe we're doing them
a favour..

> 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.
> 
Thinking about Walter Schmidt and all the other people from dctt?

> 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 re-added,
> or that we can't and add the new caption.sty.
> 
I would decide for readding the old caption to our packages to make
teTeX 2.0.2 reacting on all systems equally.

H. 
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