Bug#251761: tetex-base needs a new orig.tar.gz

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster) wrote:

> - #251761: caption.sty still missing despite license change
>
>   Here we have two options: One is to readd caption.sty as it was, with
>   the effect that a) tetex-2.0.2 in Debian behaves as tetex-2.0.2
>   elsewhere and b) people that want to use caption.sty should update it
>   from CTAN. The other is to add a current caption.sty, with the
>   respective (dis)advantages.
>
>   I'm not decided yet, but I'm inclined to vote for the new
>   caption.sty. Option 1 would mean adding the following files:

I really think we should add the new version. Backwards compatibility
does not make much sense here, I would say, because: 

a) caption.sty provides it's own backward compatibility, and if it
   doesn't to some respect, the author had a reason for this. Thus,
   backward compatibility would only mean to keep old errors.

b) I don't think that people out there care about whether some
   particular installation is plain tetex-2.0.2 or not. If versions do
   matter, one is usually told to use \listfiles, nobody relies on "I
   only have tetex-2.0.2 here".

c) nobody forbids us to backport changes. It's just that we generally
   refuse to, because it would cause us lots of work and lots of
   requests to update other stuff from CTAN. But with caption.sty, we
   have yet decided to re-add it, and then we can do it properly.

Hilmar, you've argued for the old version - do your concerns still hold? 

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