Bug#447780: texlive-doc-base: Debian's documentation does not mention picins
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 20:04 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
>
> Back in the days "picins" was shipped with tetex[-extra] but AFAICS
> it is non-free due to lack of license information and therefore
> can't be distributed with Debian. But package texlive-doc-en for
> example ships the file
> /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc-en/english/catalogue/entries/picins.html
>
> On the other hand /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc-base/README.Debian.gz
> does not mention that picins isn't part of Debian's texlive. (At
> least I assume that picins is part of original texlive due to
> existance of picins.html)
No, picins.sty has also been removed from upstream TeX Live in October
2005. The fact that the above file is included only means that
picins.sty is on CTAN. Look for example at
/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc-en/english/catalogue/entries/frenchpro.html
which is actually a shareware package. There is an error in
picins.html though, since it still claims that it is part of TeX
Live. The current version
<URL:http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/picins.html>
is correct in this respect.
cheerio
ralf
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