[tex-live] tlmgr: Is it possible to see the version number of a ctan package?

[Victor Ivrii]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Robin Fairbairns
<Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Sometimes not so new packages on CTAN have very recent file creation
>> dates and there could be many reasons for that starting from the
>> silent update by the author.
>
> there's a common practice of "minor bug corrected, not enough to merit
> an announcement" (i presume that's what you mean?).

No I meant "not enough to merit version change"

>> This a matter of "c'est la vie" as we
>> used to say in half-Russian/half-French during my student years
>
> which part of c'est la vie is russian?


We used to say "Такова селави" :)  <=> "This is c'est la vie" thus
doubling "this is"


>
> (i picked up very little colloquial russian when learning it; the only
> thing i remember is "an old friend is a _droog_, a new friend is a
> _tovarishch_"[*], but it doesn't quite fit "c'est la vie" sort of
> effect.)
>
> robin
>
> [*] 1989 seemed a long way away in the '50s and '60s when i was learning
> russian.
>

Victor

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