Re: Bug#338608: Documenting change to tetex 3.0; deprecating initex and virtex.
From: Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>
Subject: Bug#338608: Documenting change to tetex 3.0; deprecating initex and virtex.
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:45:41 +0000
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 04:54:30PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote:
> > Wrong - the Debian package doesn't deprecate anything, and not even
> > teTeX does. Ten months too late, Debian has a package for teTeX 3.0
> > which drops a symlink and thus support for a prognam name which has been
> > deprecated for years.
>
> I have used TeX for years, even co-maintaining the Debian tetex-*
> packages, and had no idea that "initex" was deprecated rather than tex
> -ini simply being an alternative interface. That's what The TeXbook
> calls it, that's what I used.
It's no problem that you continue to use initex (as you know,
you can do so only creating initex as a symbolic link to tex),
but I think because (as a TeX system) teTeX doesn't need initex
for a really long time and it works completely fine only with
a current mechanism for many years (through with fmtutil),
it is sufficiently reasonable that teTeX drops (an obsolete
symbolic link) initex at last.
If this is not satisfactory for you and you think that
a symbolic link initex is really necessary _for teTeX_ even now,
the best way would be that you contact teTeX upstream.
Regards, 2005-11-14(Mon)
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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