pgf - updates and future

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Ohura-san

Norbert from the Debian TeX Maintainers Team.

I would like to inquire about your future plans regarding pgf?
A new release has been made in 12/2013, finally after many years,
and the new release has also entered TeX Live (upstream) already.

I would like to see the new pgf rather soon in Debian, so I would
like to hear your opinion, as there are a few things I can offer you,
if you want:
* I can help packaging, in fact I have created a git repo (locally
  by now) where I imported your 2.10-1 package and the new upstream
  source, and started the necessary changes of the packaging.
  If you have some VCS repository (svn, git, bzr, whatever) that is
  accessible I can contribute.

* We could move the pgf package into the Debian TeX Group and use
  your repository or start a new one in the git.debian.org debian-tex
  realm.

* We could phase out the independent pgf package and re-include it
  in the texlive-pictures package, which includes several extensions
  of tikz and other graphics packages.

Looking forward to hear your opinion.

宜しくお願い致します。

Norbert

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