teTeX 3?

[Timo Jyrinki]

Christoph Bier <christoph.bier at web.de> wrote:
> I already asked in March 2005 for teTeX-3.0 in Hoary. But Hoary was
> already frozen. Now Breezy is frozen and teTeX-3.0 won't find it's
> way to Breezy anymore. What does it mean? Is there no interest in
> TeX users? Just let me know, because I'm migrating all machines here
> from Debian to Ubuntu (most work already done =/). But we are all
> TeX users ... (yes, I know there are teTeX-3.0 packages in Debian; I
> intensely tested it.). BTW: It would be a pity if there was no
> interest in TeX users because we like Ubuntu very much here. Good work!

Hi! I also agree that it's unfortunate for Ubuntu to have old version
of teTeX and related packages.

The reason seems to be that Debian does _not_ have 3.0 packages in their
unstable repository, but version 2.0.2c-8 *). So if you have some time,
try to see why 3.0 hasn't moved from experimental to unstable, and help
in moving it if possible.

Packages in Ubuntu are mostly the same version as in Debian unstable
(not experimental), unless someone specifically upgrades to a newer version
for some Ubuntu release. I hope that now with Debian Sarge out and the big
transitions made, Debian will catch up in the areas it has lacked for a
while.

For that matter, 2.0.2 has been enough for me, with the exception of
non-integrated UTF-8 input method support about which I don't know if
it has been fixed in 3.0.

-Timo

*) http://packages.debian.org/unstable/tex/tetex-base

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