Re: [tex-live] Patches for dvidvi
On Mon, 02 Jul 2007, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> > > - Markus Kohm: 1.1 in 1994 at the latest
> >
> > So this means AFAIS that TeX Live *IS* upstream. If we just feed in the
> > changes and make sure that they compile on all arch/os combinations then
> > we are gone. Right?
> >
> > Karl???
>
> karl generally says that tex-live is downstream from ctan.
>
> however, if the author(s) don't want to put stuff on ctan, it's not
> clear to me what the rules are.
What I wanted to say is that since it seems that there is no upstream,
we at TeX Live are caring for that the stuff still compiles, fits into
TeX Live etc. In this sense upstream.
Best wishes
Norbert
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