Re: Re: dist-upgrade problem
Zach <netrek@gmail.com> wrote:
|> On 7/8/07, Graham Williams <Graham.Williams@togaware.com> wrote:
|>
|> > tetex no longer exists (except historically) and to automatically
|> > and seamlessly
|>
|> Hi Graham,
|>
|> Wow, this is news to me. What happened the project was going strong
|> just 1-2 years ago. Did all the developers suddenly abandon it? How
|> strange.
This is from a message sent to the debian-devel list by Frank Kuester in
April:
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the Debian TeX Task force is currently preparing an upload of TeX Live
2007 to unstable. With this version, teTeX will vanish as a separate
package and only continue to exist as transitional packages.
teTeX has been abandoned upstream. TeX Live, which uses most of the
scripts developed for teTeX, is its successor in Debian (and elsewhere),
and we do not plan to support both systems beyond the lifetime of etch.
The transitional packages were designed to give users a sensible choice
of TeX stuff, depending on whether they had tetex-extra or only
tetex-bin installed.
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Thomas Esser (the principal developer of teTeX) cooperated with the
TeXLive developers from the start and contributed to the project (which
was based on teTeX). In May 2006 he announced that there would be no
further releases of teTeX and suggested that anyone interested in teTeX
development should contribute to the TeXLive project:
http://tug.org/tetex/
http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/live.html#x1-640009
Jim
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