Re: Bug#388653: marked as done (texlive-pictures: new version of dcpic available)
Hi Frank, hi all!
On Fre, 29 Dez 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> > Hi, the version of dcpic in texlive-pictures is 4.0, but 4.1.1 is
> > available from http://hilbert.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/DCpic/ . Although, the
> > only apparent change is the addition of a two-headed arrow.
>
> I didn't notice this before uploading, and it doesn't do much harm,
> anyway, BUT:
>
> I strongly advice not to do such updates
Agreed. "Asche auf mein Haupt"...
> - second, packages included in TeXlive $version have had considerable
> testing together, at least at the time when we release them as Debian
> stable. Updating random styles might well introduce incompatibilities
> (what if dcpic.sty assumes a version of, say, calc.sty that's not yet
> in TeXlive 2005?)
Didn't happen here (this is something I checked, the release I included,
the last one, is from 12/2004!).
> - finally, I strongly oppose to doing updates from other places than
> CTAN. Need I give details on the reasons?
Yup, but if it were on CTAN it would be in texlive, too, but it isn't.
Best wishes
Norbert
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