Bug#193399: ITP: latex209 -- macro files of LaTeX 2.09 25-mar-1992 version

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 06:58:00PM +0900, TSUCHIYA Masatoshi wrote:
> >> On Thu, 15 May 2003 10:42:42 +0100
> >> cjwatson@debian.org (Colin Watson) said as follows:
> 
> >It would be nice to have a rationale for why the older version is
> >needed.
> 
> I need it to process ancient TeX sources without modification.
> For example, the style file of my bachelor's thesis only supports
> LaTeX-2.09.

Thanks. (Kind of calls into question all those assertions on -legal last
year that we can't possibly modify TeX or LaTeX because we have to be
able to process ancient sources forever ... not that I'm sure I ever
believed them anyway. :))

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]