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[Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/29/2013 10:51 AM, Kevin Godby wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Is it worth our emailing the package maintainers and letting them know
>> of our preference for using their work and our needs, so they are
>> "encouraged" to roll out a new package set that would help us?

> We could always give it a shot, I suppose. I don't know what their
> current package update/release schedule looks like.  I presume that
> first the Debian packagers have to do their work and then Ubuntu will
> pull in the updated packages.

Looks like it syncs straight over, no changes for Ubuntu needed (no
-ubuntu1 suffix in the package versions).  So hopefully there is only
one set of (Debian) TeX Live packagers we would need to talk to.  I'll
take a look.

Jonathan