Re: Packaging TeXLive 2008: Source packages
On Sa, 21 Feb 2009, Marc J. Driftmeyer wrote:
> I believe this is where I've misconstrued TeXLive's intention with
> that of CTAN:
>
> >(Note: this is not true of all the software in the CTAN snapshot or
> >in proTeXt, which are distributed alongside TeX Live in the TeX
> >Collection.)
Ah yes, CTAN holds stuff that is not completely freely distributable.
> In short, CTAN snapshots always being more recent than TeXLive have
> to eventually sanitized for TeXLive future distributions?
We (TL upstream) pull daily from CTAN and ship them via the network
updates. or the Debian packages that cannot and will not be possible.
But the sanitizing is already done on the CTAN->TL step where we cancel
everything that is non-free (everything we find).
Best wishes
Norbert
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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Vienna University of Technology
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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