Bug#251761: tetex-extra: caption.sty still missing despite license change
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> schrieb:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
>
>>> Is this still true, i.e. will this still result in formats not building,
>>> instead of only a warning? If this is the case, this would be a grave
>>> bug.
>>>
>>> Hm, but I think it will build the formats. In latex.ltx (2.0.2 version)
>>> I find:
>>>
>>> \ifnum\count@>30
>>> \typeout{^^J%
>> <snip>
>>> }
>>> \errhelp{To avoid this error message, obtain new LaTeX sources.}
>>> \errmessage{LaTeX source files more than 1 year old!}
>>> \fi
>>>
>> This is an error message. I guess, the LaTeX run will stop and the
>> postinst-script will exit with non-zero.
>
> You're right. I took the wording too literal - although it will generate
> the formats in nonstopmode, it will exit with an error.
... if there is an \errmessage. Since this part is never executed in
2.0.2's latex.ltx, as Richard has pointed out, we don't have a problem.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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