[tex-live] ducksay auxiliary files

[Manfred Lotz]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 11:55:26 +0100
Joseph Wright <joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk> wrote:

> On 22/09/2018 11:52, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 11:46:15 +0200
> > Jonathan Spratte <jspratte at yahoo.de> wrote:
> >   
> >> Also is there anything I can do during packaging to prevent such
> >> misplacements in future packages and/or releases of mine?  
> > 
> > I guess the maintainers of miktex and texlive rely either on
> > documentation or on their looking glasses supported by their
> > experiences. The latter might fail though...  
> 
> Upload a TDS-style zip to CTAN? Then the system maintainers can just
> use that, and the layout is down to the uploader.
> 
> Joseph
> 

Yes, this is another possibility. 

We usually don't recommend it for such small packages because in the
past it had caused Karl more work if the TDS zip archive wasn't
packaged correctly. The same presumably for Christian Schenk.


-- 
Manfred