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

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> wrote:

> From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
> Subject: Bug#251761: tetex-extra: caption.sty still missing despite license change
> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 00:29:31 +0200
>
>> a few files have another path than in the original texmf-tree. We
>> deliver out a few directories^1, which contain just one file:
>> .need_me . Why do we need these?
>
> I thought these were in the upstream texmf-tree as an empty
> directories and so it would be necessary to deliver these 
> as a prototype for a user who tried to install some stuffs 
> from CTAN(?) for example.
>
> In fact I'm not sure for what stuffs are these so if we all
> think it is unnecessary there is no probelem to remove these.
>
> I've explained this in README.Debian;
>
> - We should preserve empty directories by creating a file .need_me in those
> directories for orig.tar.gz because cvs-upgrade dislikes empty directory.
> Try to run "find . -type d -empty -print" and then 
> "find . -type d -empty -exec touch {}/.need_me \;" and finally check again
> with "find . -type d -empty -print"

In my experience most CTAN stuff explains quite well where things should
be put, and in most cases, even with fonts, I had to create the
respective directories (or used tex/latex/misc/ for style files).

I think we can savely omit those directories. If we manipulate the
orig.tar.gz anyway, we can remove those files again, I'd say.

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