Bug#302301: tetex-extra: letterspacing.sty missing

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

James Hirschorn <James.Hirschorn@logic.univie.ac.at> wrote:

> Package: tetex-extra
> Version: 2.0.2c-7
> Severity: normal
>
>
> Shouldn't it be in tetex?

>From changelog.Debian:

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| tetex-base (2.0.2c-1) unstable; urgency=high
| 
|   * Urgency high because the first three fixes address serious bugs.
|   * Removed letterspacing.tex from orig.tar.gz because it is non-free,
|     increased the version number accordingly (closes: #274868). [frank]
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The author of letterspacing.sty is notoriously reluctant to add a
DFSG-free license statement to his files, thus allowing distribution by
Debian (and TeX-live etc.).  If you are using LaTeX, you can use
soul.sty instead; I don't know if there is a solution for plain TeX.

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer