> No, the workaround is to install XeTeX (together with the xkeyval > version it is shipping) where every additional software should be > installed: Either in /usr/local (so that xkeyval.sty gets into > /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty) or in $HOME. In > both cases, the updated xkeyval package will take precedence over the > one shipped with the Debian teTeX packages.
Hm, for whatever reason this didn't happen for me. The xkeyval in Debian was taking precedence over the one in /usr/local, but I suppose that this could be an artifact of the rather strange packaging job that XeTeX did. I'm not going to worry about it too much. > This won't happen, sorry. We usually wait for a new upstream release of > teTeX (otherwise we'd have to start to maintain our own TeX > distribution, instead of just packaging teTeX). However, teTeX has been > abandoned upstream. It's successor, TeXLive, is also available in > testing; maybe its version of xkeyval is sufficient. Understood. Thanks for your time, and for your quick response. mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]