Bug#432517: Just upgraded from tetex to texlive. Latex package "caption" no longer works

[Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de>]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:09 +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:42:38 +0200, "Ale" wrote:
> > The problem is simply solved by changing the line
> > \newcommand\captionbox{parbox[t]}
> > in caption3.sty to a renewcommand, but then if I use another
> > document class I get the opposite problem. 
> 
> Perhaps a better workaround might be to copy caption3.sty to
> some working directory, modify it and compile a file with
> aastex document class only in that directory and a file with
> another document class in another directory.

Changing a quite standard package like caption is not a good idea,
since it reduces the portability of the document. A portable
alternative would be to use

\documentclass{aastex}
\let\captionbox=\undefined
\usepackage{caption}

However, I expect the aastex.cls needs its definition of
\captionbox. So the only real solution would be to ask the authors of
the packages to find some sort of cooperation.

cheerio
ralf