[tex-live] Fwd: gwTeX + LaTeX update: minor incompatibility (?)

Robin Fairbairns Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Tue Sep 26 08:46:31 CEST 2006


>     Does anybody know where to report this bug? 
> 
> Well, the place to report LaTeX bugs is the LaTeX bugs database,
> linked on latex-project.org.

except that there is no dvipdfm.def in latex graphics release any more
(see the ltnews17 that came with the latest release, iirc)

>     It seems there is an error in the LaTeX release of earlier this
>     year.
> 
> My recollection is that dvipdfm.def is not (any longer?) part of LaTeX,
> i.e., not generated by graphics-drivers.ins.  I wrote a message about
> the confusing situation vis-a-vis the <driver>.def files a little while
> ago (met with deafening silence).  So maybe the bug is not in LaTeX?
> 
> The dvipdfm.def in TL is dated 1999/9/6, FWIW.

it's nothing to do with latex, honest.

we couldn't hope to maintain drivers in the distribution, and so we
made a public announcement that we wouldn't.

robin


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