[tex-live] old packages

[Staszek Wawrykiewicz]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Torsten Schuetze wrote:

> I just tested the preliminary test image texlive2005-inst-20051102.iso.
> Everything works fine under SuSE 9.3. However, I have found some 
> packages which could be updated:
> 
> texpower:   TL 2005 beta contains 2004/07/27 v0.1b
>              current (texpower.sourceforge.net): 2005/04/08 v0.2

CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/texpower

> tpslifonts: TL 2005 beta contains 2003/05/29 v0.6
>              current 2004/07/27 v0.6d

CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/texpower/tpslifonts
 
> 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

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.
 
> ...
> Further, the package ltxtable.sty is missing in tex/latex/carlisle. Just 
> run source/latex/carlisle/ltxtable.tex and mv ltxtable.sty to the 
> appropriate place.

Hmm, strange. Why that's no simply ltxtable.dtx?
 
> These are all minor issues and it could be too late for this years 
> release cycle. But perhaps they can be updated next year ;-)

Yes. Thanks for reporting that.

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Staszek Wawrykiewicz
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