[tex-live] teTeX: no next release

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Wed May 31 23:22:42 CEST 2006


On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 16:23 -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
>     it looks like TeX Live does not use "pristine" upstream sources, 
> 
> Where do you get that idea?  I don't make changes to what was released
> to CTAN (or wherever the original source is, unfortunately not
> everything is on CTAN, despite our continuing efforts).

I did not mean to imply that they were forks. I apologize for my poor
choice of words.

What I meant is that the TeX Live archives are a packaging themselves
and are not the pristine source, just like rpm packages are packages
themselves, or slack .tgz are packages, or debian .dpkg are packages.



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