[tex-live] TeX Live 2016 binaries status, and TeX Live 2016 reaches some Linux distributions

[Zdenek Wagner]

2016-06-12 18:38 GMT+02:00 Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de>:

> 2016-06-12 1:35 GMT+02:00 Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu>:
> > I have several flavors of Ubuntu, which uses Debian-style packaging,
> > but the latest version, 16.04 LTS (Long-Term Support -- to 2021), is
> > still supplying TeX Live 2015.
>
> Nelson, sorry - but I have to ask: Do you know what "Long-Term Support"
> means?
> I doubt it - otherwise you wouldn't imply that 16.04 should update to
> TL2016.
>
> > CentOS 7 (and thus, Red Hat 7 and Scientific Linux 7), the latest
> > version in that popular distribution family, still has only TeX Live
> > 2013.
>
> Small wonder: RHEL7 was released on 2014-06-10.
>

It is explicitely written in the CentOS documentation. If the major version
of CentOS is not changed, software is never updated to a new major version
even if it contains known bugs (as was the gace of ghostsvript in CentOS
4.x). The newer TeX Live will appear in CentOS 8.0.

>
> OTOH Fedora currently has TL2015.
>
> Best
>    Martin
>


Zdeněk Wagner
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