The Future of Debian's TeX system: tetex
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Hi folks!
Some time ago I started a discussion about the future of Debian's TeX
packages. The old packages had lots of bugs and some of them were based on
old upstream sources.
We had two possibilites: continuing with our own tex packages (i.e. fixing
the old bugs, upgrading to newer upstream versions, included some newer
patches to web2c related stuff) or basing our tex system on another UNIX
tex distribution, as NTeX or teTeX for example.
The discussion on debian-devel showed me that there were good arguments
for both sides. Initially we planned to continue with our own tex packages
but then Chow Chi-Ming and Christoph Martin both came up with a debianized
tetex packages. There were some problems with the directory structure of
tetex, but these were easily fixed (with help of Thomas Esser, the author
of tetex).
We hope that this was the right decision and will make life easier for
Debian's TeX users.
The new tetex packages will be included in Debian 1.3. There are now part
of the unstable distribution and will replace the old packages in about a
week. If you want to help you could download these new packages and test
them.
Thanks,
Chris
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