Dear Norbert, Thank you very much indeed for clarifying things for me. There's obviously been masses of work on this going on by you and colleagues that I have been unaware of. And of course, I'm extremely grateful, and look forward to TL2009 arriving in my Ubuntu system. I hesitate to offer, but is there anything I can do to help? Is there documentation somewhere about the processes involved in what you call the "rather big transition" of packages from CTAN to the Debian repositories? Is this transition always via TeXLive, i.e., an annual update event? Am I right in thinking that Christan Schenk maintains a completely separate repository, by himself, that is unrelated to the Debian repository? Best wishes, and greetings from the Institute, now amongst the beautiful old AKH quadrangles (picture attached). Dominik <div class="gmail_quote">2010/1/15 Norbert Preining <<a href="mailto:preining@logic.at">preining@logic.at</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Dominik, short answer to all that: Debian contains TeX Live 2009, it should move soon from unstable to testing. After that Ubuntu will probably pull the new TeX Live packages into Ubuntu and from then on TeX Live 2009 will be available for Ubuntu. <div class="im"> On Fr, 15 Jan 2010, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > Do you have any background on all this, Sebastian? Can you suggest any ways > in which the Synaptic repositories could be kept up to date with CTAN? As </div>You (Dominik) are missing something here. First, it si not synaptic, or not for that matter, apt-get, aptitude, whatever package manager of Ubuntu you are using. Debian and Ubuntu are packaging these packages in a way fitting for the distributions. Normally Debian does the packaging, Ubuntu just pulls from Debian and sometimes makes small adjustments. <div class="im"> > everything is in fact happening, and TL2009 will appear in the > Synaptic repository soon, thanks to the work of Preining and Küster. </div>As said, they are already in Debian, but need to swap over into testing (which is a rather big transition) and then Ubuntu will pull from them. I am quite sure that Sebastian cannot do anything here, the way of packages from upstream authors to CTAN to TeX Live (proper) to Debian packages is a long way. If you still have questions, let me know. And greet my my old institute, I was studying "Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde" for some years there, back in the days when it was in the Marie-Theresienstraße. Good old times I am missing the smoke heavy seminars, between all the old books and images. Nowadays impossible. Best wishes Norbert PS: Yes I am from Vienna, but currently working in Japan, and for the next few years. Still we can meet at some point I am visiting Vienna again and again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norbert Preining preining@{<a href="http://jaist.ac.jp" target="_blank">jaist.ac.jp</a>, <a href="http://logic.at" target="_blank">logic.at</a>, <a href="http://debian.org" target="_blank">debian.org</a>} JAIST, Japan TU Wien, Austria Debian TeX Task Force DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ You're bound to be unhappy if you optimize everything. --- Donald E. Knuth </blockquote></div>