Bug#251761: tetex-base needs a new orig.tar.gz
On 03.07.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster) wrote:
Moin,
> > - #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.
>
The statement with the errors is correct. About the compatibility:
caption2 and caption (2.x) are not fully compatible and I guess
caption (3.0) is closer to caption2 that to 1.x.
> 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".
>
I don't know how often I read in dctt "he has 2.0.2 hence he must
have $PACKAGE in version x.y, therefore etc.". But IIRC I've read
quite often: "It works on teTeX 2.0.2 shipped with SuSE x.y but not
with 2.0.2 on Debian." Yes, the experienced users do trace the
problem down by asking for \listfiles.
> 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?
>
Still not completely convinced. From that view that we want to be a
user friendly dist I'd vote for adding the caption 3.0. Should we
update caption2 then too? The new version tells that it has been
superseded by caption.
H.
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