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Bug#447780: texlive-doc-base: Debian's documentation does not mention picins



* Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> [20071023 22:17]:
> 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.

Ah ok, thanks for clarification.

> The fact that the above file is included only means that
> picins.sty is on CTAN.

Pfuh ok, a bit confusing IMHO. ;)

> 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.

Ah.

regards,
-mika-

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