Call for testing: TeX Collection 2021

[Manfred Lotz]

Hi Martin,
Thanks a lot for testing and also for spotting these nasty errors in
the ctan text files.

Corrected now and uploaded to tug.org. 

Of course, for any testing this is not relevant.

Thanks again and all the best,
Manfred


On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 21:37:14 +0200
Martin Sievers <martin at dante.de> wrote:

> Am 02.04.21 um 16:45 schrieb Manfred Lotz:
> > Hi folks,
> > The TeX Collection image for 2021 is available for testing from
> >       http://tug.org/~manfred
> > 
> > Specifically
> >    http://tug.org/~manfred/texcol2021.iso
> > 
> > Checksums are available as:
> >    http://tug.org/~manfred/texcol2021.iso.md5
> > or
> >    http://tug.org/~manfred/texcol2021.iso.sha512
> > 
> > Like the years before I just make assumptions what could be possibly
> > tested by you. Feel free to do whatever you can do.
> > [...]
> > Martin Sievers: texlive on Ubuntu; protext on Windows 10
> > [...] 
> > 
> > Please report your test results by including operating system and
> > version, e.g. Ubuntu 19.10.  
> 
> Dear Manfred, dear all,
> 
> first of all I would like to thank all of you for the great work
> you're doing each year to provide the TeX Collection to thousands of
> users all over the world.
> 
> This year I won't have as much time and platforms available for
> testing as in recent years.
> 
> I installed TeX Live 2021 from the iso image on my Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
> and ProTeXt on my Window 10 Pro without any problems.
> 
> However, I would like to suggest editing the rather outdated text at
> the beginning of README.HTML (and the corresponding passages for
> other langages like LIESMICH.HTML) as well as of the txt versions:
> ------------------------------------------
> The CTAN backbone consists of the servers
> 
>      ftp.tex.ac.uk (cam.ctan.org) in the UK,
>      ftp.dante.de (dante.ctan.org) in Germany,
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> As far as I know there is only the DANTE server left.
> 
> 
> Moreover, I found a wrong date in these texts:
> ------------------------------------------
> The snapshot was produced in May 2017 from ftp.dante.de by DANTE,
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> which should for sure be something like April 2021 or March 2021.
> 
> Best regards,
> Martin
> 
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