Maintenance of TeX Live

[Peter Flynn]

On 23/07/11 21:44, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Peter Flynn<peter at silmaril.ie>  wrote:
>>> Does anyone have any information about who deals with repackaging
>>> this for Ubuntu? The Ubuntu sites are less than forthcoming on this.
>>> They still have texlive-2009 as the default. While this isn't a
>>> show-stopper for most users, it would be nice to encourage Ubuntu to
>>> update it (by jumping to 2011 if need be), and even nicer to offer
>>> help. And I have no idea what the poor Red Hat users do: RH seem
>>> still to be shipping teTeX.
>
> Ubuntu gets texlive from Debian [1]. You can contact the maintainers
> [2] to get info on the upgrade. There are something like 120 bugs in
> the package, so if people are willing to help I'm sure they would
> appreciate it.

Excellent, thank you very much.

///Peter

> [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/texlive-base.html
> [2] debian-tex-maint at lists.debian.org
>
> Cheers,
> Scott
>