[Fedora TeX Live] TeXLive inclusion in Fedora - timeline?

Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Sep 26 04:11:38 CEST 2011


On 09/24/2011 08:21 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Approximately five of packages that I'm also in charge of are listed,
> but none of the entries is right. Some hyph* packages miss the point
> and context-vim was updated on request of RedHat at least a year ago.

I did point out that the page was not up to date. :)

> If you update the list, fell free to ask me (off-list) for details,
> but I'm probably not the only one that would see wrong entries on the
> list.
> 
> It might make more sense to contact TL team directly than to draw your
> own conclusions in case of unclarities. They often remove packages
> with unsuitable licences on try to reach authors to fix problems on
> CTAN, but it is true that some problems might go unnoticed since
> nobody checks every single file in distribution. There are thousands
> of them.

It is not correct to say "nobody checks", since we're doing it. And we
have contacted the TL team, and we get... mixed results from that.

But, as I keep saying, we need to make a new list of components,
licenses, and status, and work from there.

~tom

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