Re: Why is latexmk in Debian so old?

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

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Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> The latexmk version in Debian is 3.07a, which was released in 2004.
> Why hasn't it been updated?
> 
> FYI:
>   http://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/software/latexmk-jcc/
>   http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/support/latexmk/

It is orphaned and waits for someone stepping in to maintain it:

http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/latexmk.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523193

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Johannes

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