[tex-live] meta data of ucs

[Wolfgang Jeltsch]

Am Dienstag, den 24.04.2012, 14:43 -0700 schrieb Karl Berry:
> > I have a request though. The short and long description of this
> > package on CTAN have changed. Could the meta data in TeXLive please
> > be updated accordingly? 
> 
> Well, ordinarily such "description skew" is something that just has to
> be lived with.  But in this case, TL had the right information.
> 
>     <http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/ucs.html>  .
> 
> mirror.ctan.org is a multiplexer.  I surmise the mirror you ended up was
> out of date.  I see the same information at the UK backbone node as in TL:
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ucs.html 

I also see the same information on both the UK backbone node and my
mirror. And it’s the current information. However,

    tlmgr show ucs

still shows the old one.

The new information is this:

    Short description:

        Extended UTF-8 input encoding support for LaTeX.

    Long description:

        The bundle provides the ucs package, and utf8x.def, together
        with a large number of support files.

        The utf8x.def definition file for use with inputenc covers a
        wider range of Unicode characters than does utf8.def in the
        LaTeX distribution. The package provides facilities for
        efficient use of its large sets of Unicode characters.
        
        Glyph production may be controlled by various options, which
        permits use of non-ASCII characters when coding mathematical
        formulae.
        
        Note that the bundle previously had an alias “unicode”; that
        alias has now been withdrawn, and no package of that name now
        exists. 

The last paragraph of the long description is only relevant for CTAN.

The description I find in TeXLive is this:

    Short description:

        Extended UTF-8 input encoding for LaTeX.

    Long description:

        This bundle provides the ucs package, and utf8x.def, together
        with a large number of support files. The utf8x.def definition
        file for use with inputenc covers a wider range of Unicode
        characters than does utf8.def in the LaTeX distribution. The ucs
        package provides facilities for efficient use of large sets of
        Unicode characters.

> Nevertheless, I forced an update in TL anyway, just for the heck of it.

Note that the ucs package was formerly called “unicode” on CTAN, while
it is now called “ucs”. Could it be that TeXLive gets its meta data from
an obsolete source?

> Best,
> Karl

Best wishes,
Wolfgang