[tex-live] package updates still possible?

Torsten Schuetze torsten.schuetze at siemens.com
Tue Jan 9 14:24:54 CET 2007


Hi,

I just tested yesterdays image. Everything worked fine so far under
openSuSe 10.2. However, I found some outdated packages

powerdot:  v1.3 is in TeXLive, current is
\ProvidesClass{powerdot}
  [2005/12/10 v1.4 powerdot presentation class (HA,CE)]

It can be found under
http://stuwww.uvt.nl/~hendri/Downloads/Files/powerdot.zip

Unfortunately, on CTAN is only the old version 1.3

The next lines are quoted from my mail last year. Just change TL 2005
beta to TL 2006-07 beta and it is still valid:

> seminar.bg2: TL 2005 beta contains 1997/11/20 v1.6
>              v1.7 1998/05/22 can be found at 
> www.tug.org/applications/Seminar/seminar.bg2
> 
>              v2.1 2002/05/31 !! can be found inside
> http://www.tug.org/applications/Seminar/SemDemos.tar.gz

Staszek's reply last year was:

> It is not updated on CTAN. Sorry, we cannot scan the whole world
> and CTAN *is* and *should be* the definitive source for any update
> in the distributions.

Yes, I know this. I wrote to the authors last year to update their
packages on CTAN. But no reaction. So, what should we do? Ignore the bug
reports, see e.g. Debian bug Bug#360612
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org/msg25468.html

or add these files to the TeXLive release.

In addition to seminar.bg2 there exists a seminar.bg3 posted in a
newsgroup
http://groups.google.com/group/fr.comp.text.tex/msg/e1e905508b0de896?output=gplain

seminar.bg2 and seminar.bg3 are widely used. Shouldn't we include these
files to TeXLive even when there are not on CTAN? For simplicity I will
attach both files.

Thanks,
  Torsten
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