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Re: Upstream vs packaged texlive

 

You might want to contact the maintainers of the texlive ppa to see if
they'd be willing to help (or take it over). Let them know that it works
on 12.04, and what changes you needed to make to get it working.

Have a great day.:)
Patrick.

On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 12:50 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: 
> On 12 June 2013 12:32, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Correct.  Well, 12.04 users could try backporting the 13.04 texlive
> > source packages instead.  It could work, but seems more effort than it
> > is worth at this point :)
> 
> Already done: https://launchpad.net/~texlive-backports/+archive/ppa
> 
> It shouldn't need much maintenance at this point but if somebody with
> PPA experience wants to take over maintainership, let me know.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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