Bug#360612: seminar package bug corrections files are out of date

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Joerg Dorchain <joerg@dorchain.net> wrote:

>> Moreover, the file seminar.bg3 you sent doesn't contain any copyright
>> and license statement, and therefore may not be distributed.  Upstream
>> should correct that, and it would also be nice to know where upstream
>> is. 
>
> seminar.bg3 is taken from a usenet post. Reference is e.g.
> http://groups.google.com/group/fr.comp.text.tex/msg/e1e905508b0de896?output=gplain
> or news:<Pine.SOL.3.96.1000428184721.1326A-100000@borsu28>
> (Sorry, french only)
>
> The author is obviously the same Denis GIROU who supposedly maintains
> http://tug.org/applications/Seminar/Seminar-Bugs.html.

Hm, if he actually *maintains* it, I usually would assume that there's a
reason why he has not uploaded the correction to tug.org - e.g. because
he thinks it needs more testing, or he actually has found a bug in bg3.

As I said, we generally don't update single files in tetex, because it
would simply be too much work - it would mean to maintain our own,
Debian-specific TeX distribution.  We do consider updating certain
critical things, but for sure this requires that the upstream author
says "you should *really* have this", and not just posts it somewhere in
Usenet. 

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)