[tex-live] bin-dvipos.tpm

[Hans Hagen]

Frank � wrote:
> Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> wrote:
>
>   
>> Frank � wrote:
>>     
>>> In other words:  dvipos is a part of bin-dvipdfmx, but dvipdfmx is a
>>> separate package in Debian.  Has this binary been introduced only in
>>> newer versions of dvipdfmx?  We should ask the dvipdfmx maintainer to
>>> add it.
>>>   
>>>       
>> it's actually around for quite a while; it was always distributed in
>> the windows binary distributions and i have no clue why it never ended
>> up in the lin/mac bin parts 
>>     
>
> Hm, that's one thing that's strange.  The other is why it's in
> bin-dvipdfmx at all:  It is not distributed with the dvipdfmx sources
> (see http://cvs.ktug.or.kr/viewcvs/dvipdfmx/) and has a separate
> subdirectory in source/texk/.  That's the reason why we (Debian) missed
> it, we just excluded bin-dvipdfmx.tpm because dvipdfmx already exists in
> Debian. 
>
> Why not have a separate bin-dvipos.tpm?
>
>   
this makes sense then 

Hans 

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