Bug#360612: seminar package bug corrections files are out of date

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 04.04.06 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:
> Joerg Dorchain <joerg@dorchain.net> wrote:

Hi Joerg,

> > 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.
> 
<snip>
> 
> 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.
> 
Is that a acceptable answer for you?
In texmf.cnf should be a local texmf tree be defined and you're free
to put the file in question into that one. You may even divert
seminar.bg2 if it is necessary.
I suggest to tag that bug as wonfix and wait until the file made it
into upstream and the upstream release into Debian. If teTeX dies it
will happen in a TeX-Live release.

Regards,
  Hilmar
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