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Re: Patches for dvidvi



Hi Lionel,

(this response only for Debian, does not interest texlive ML)

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> Well, after the discussion in Debian bug #411537, the temporary
> situation (meant for etch, until I contacted the TeX Live list) was
> that: texlive-* does not contain dvidvi, but texlive-extra-utils
> recommends (my package) dvidvi.

Ups, in TeX Live 2005 it was like this. Good.

> I realise now that the 2007 packages (in unstable) don't recommend
> dvidvi anymore, but don't ship dvidvi either. I don't see anything
> that mentions something about that in the changelog.

Bad, really bad. That was lost at the upgrade to 2007. I already have
reinstatiated this, so next texlive-bin source, ie texlive-extra-utils
will have the recommends again. Thanks again for noticing this!

Best wishes

Norbert

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