[tex-live] hausarbeit-jura packaging bug

David Carlisle d.p.carlisle at gmail.com
Thu Oct 17 00:05:20 CEST 2013


On 16 October 2013 22:53, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
>     The directory texmf-dist/doc/latex/hausarbeit-jura contains two copies
>     of the README file, one of which is called "README." (including the dot).
>
> It is a bug in the dtx, or rather (I believe) a bug in LaTeX dtx
> processing which, as I understand it, will not create an extensionless
> file.

Karl, can web2c tex write an extensionless file? (if it can, we could
make it possible from dtx processing) but

\newwrite\foo
\immediate\openout\foo=readme
\immediate\write\foo{testing...}


writes readme.tex (as I'd expect)

> So ... upstream bug.  Which upstream, take your pick.



>
> karl


David


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