Hi everybody, I haven't seen any MulTeX use in a long time. Popcon [1] use is indeed very telling. I don't mind having this package removed.
[1] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=multex-base Warm regards, -- Danai On Thu, 15 Jan 2026, 08:58 TSUCHIYA Masatoshi, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > MulTeX was developed by Takafumi Sakurai (also the developer of NTT > jTeX) for multilingual typesetting. According to its official website, > https://www.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp/~sakurai/software.html, it was actively > maintained until 2009, but is no longer maintained. MulTeX is no longer > as important as it once was, because there are now multiple multilingual > TeX derivatives. Therefore, I support the removal of MulTeX. > > I sincerely apologise for my delayed response. > > >> On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:16:10 +0100 > >> [email protected] (Andreas Tille) said as follows: > > >the chance that the original maintainer might respond is really low > >unfortunately. Please verify the MIA database. > > >TSUCHIYA Masatoshi I would be grateful if my assumption would be wrong > >and you could comment on this. > > -- > TSUCHIYA Masatoshi > >
