[ho-tex] CTAN Upload: oberdiek

[David Carlisle]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 at 16:25, Petra Ruebe-Pugliese <petra at ctan.org> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for this upload:
>
> On Thu 07 Nov 2019 at 15:05:08 +0100  CTAN Portal Service <no-reply at ctan.org> wrote:
>
> > Package:        oberdiek
> > Type:           announce
> > Version:        2019-11-07
> > Uploader:       David Carlisle <ho-tex at tug.org>
> > Location:       /macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek
>
> > Description:    [changed]
> >   this description still too long to post via the form.
> >   Please use the existing one but delete the line
> >   <xref refid='grffile'/>grffile</xref>: extend file name processing in the <a
>    Okay, no problem.
>
> > Announcement:
> > Update to oberdiek, no changes other than separating out grffile into a separate bundle.
> > Recent changes in LaTeX mean that grffile is now not needed in the majority of documents.
> >
> > Note:
> > 1 of 2 (new grffile to come) please note request to delete this line from the description
> > grffile: extend file name processing in the latex-graphics bundle;
>    No problem.
>
>  Just one question:
>  The upload contains "generated" hobsub-hyperref.sty, hobsub-generic.sty,
>  and hobsub.sty.  Is there any special reason to keep these "unpacked",
>  or may they safely be removed before installing?
>
>  (They are also in the present installation, but I cannot find
>   any internal note explaining this exception.)
>

They are not generated the current ones are stubs that don't really do
anything useful.
Now that they are disabled, I can split other packages out of oberdiek
 grffile being a first test
I'd really like to split it up completely, hobsub has made that hard
as it forces cross-package dependencies
across the whole set.

The hobsub situation is not over-documented as I needed to do it in
something of a rush (otherwise the 2018-10-01 latex release would have
broken hyperref)

probably next time I will split it out (like grffile) and explicitly
document that it is a legacy stub package)

I still need to distribute the hobsub.dtx sources in case anyone was
using that to create their own monster bundle, but I don't extract
anything from it by default.

David