Hey Manuel, On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:19:04PM +0200, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote: > For your information, after discussion we decided not to include biblatex in > the next TL release (2008), since after asking the author, he said he'd prefer > that we don't. (As you may know, though it is of course free software, the is > a notice in the README kindly asking TeX distributors to refrain from > packaging it before version 1.0). > > The main reasons of the author (quoting from memory) are: > - Don't fix a development version on DVD. > - Don't increase the user base too widely for now, since the project is still > in development phase and he thinks spending to much time on user support at > this early stage would take his time and finally hurt the project. > > While the first reason no longer hold for Debian (the package would be in sid, > and testing after Lenny release, so only installed by those who update > regularly), the second one may still hold. > > I don't know what is the best thing to do. I'm under the impression that the > user base is already quite large anyway (I no longer use bibtex w/o biblatex > myself) but probably the barrier of installing it limits the user base to > "more-than-average" users? Under these circumstances I'd consider experimental the right place for it (or maybe already sid now). > I assume the reason is, texlive-* packages in debian are updated from TL and > not from CTAN (this is TL's job...) So csquotes is still the same version as > in TL2007 (the no-for-very-longer current release). TL'08 ships v4.2 (where > did you see that current version on CTAN is 4.1? I doubt we took our version > from anywhere else that CTAN). I see the system... :) I found 4.1 at [1]. Thanks for your time so far! Cheers, Hauke [1] http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=csquotes
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