Bug#501520: flashcards: fails with "Package geometry Error"; even on the example page

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

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On 08.10.08 Hagen Fuchs (mailingliste2@gmx.net) wrote:

> Package: texlive-latex-extra
> Version: 2007.dfsg.4-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> The 'flashcards' package, residing in
> /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/flashcards/, does not properly built
> the example flash card document 'samplecards.tex'
> 
>  http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/latex/flashcards/samplecards.tex
> 
> and fails with 
> 
>  ! Package geometry Error: You must set \paperwidth properly.
> 
> This seems to be a known problem and has already been described:
> 
>   http://www.feferraz.net/en/flashcards.html
> 
> (see section 'Problems').  A diff is also provided.
> 
The patch will work fine for people using letter paper -- probably
not for you.

> I already tried the unstable version; same result.
> 
The package hasn't changed for 8 years. I wrote an E-Mail to the
author ("Alexander M. Budge" <ambudge <at> mit <dot> edu>) informing
him about the problem. Unfortunately it came back:

    Recipient address rejected: 5.1.1 User unknown (in reply to RCPT
    TO command)

Googling for a better one gained no result. Unless you find a contact
address for Alexander we must assume that he doesn't maintain the
package any more. The best solution would be to remove the package
from TeX Live.

H.
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