Bug#571679: [tex-live] moving ucs back to -recommended

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@elzevir.fr>]

Hi,

Norbert Preining a écrit :
>>From a Debian bug report:
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com> -----
>> Somewhere between Lenny and now, ucs.sty was moved from -recommended
>> to -extra. As UTF-8 support is (I believe) a release goal, I would
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> I somehow agree that making inputting utf8 with -recommended would be
> a nice thing. I don't want to dig through the dependencies now, but
> are there any specific reasons why we moved ucs package to latexextra?
> 
Well, ucs isn't required for utf8 input, \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} is enough.
Maybe ucs has a better coverage, I'm not sure, but I don't see a problem with it
being in -extra, since there is already something for utf8 input in -recommended.

Manuel.