On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 at 08:41PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Do I understand correctly - the only problems are that sagetex doesn't > work in Debian currently, and
Yes. > you are bothered too often about that? Many users install TeXLive without having any idea that it includes SageTeX, and later when they install Sage and try to use SageTeX, their TeX system automatically finds the (outdated, mismatched) version of sagetex.sty and typesetting fails. They are experiencing this problem through no fault of their own, so it seems reasonable to make a small change to the packages that will affect no one except these Sage users. > Or is there a copy of SageTeX in Debian, in the Sage package? Sage is not distributed by Debian. (It used to be, in the sagemath package, but keeping it updated was too difficult for us, so it was removed.) So there is another reason to remove the SageTeX files: they are useless without software that is not available in Debian, and when you install that software manually, you get SageTeX with it. > In any case - we don't have much time and would rather spend that on > bringen TL 2011 into Debian, instead of fixing TL 2009. But if someone > checks that there's nothing to do but blacklist the files (and provide a > list of the files affected), maybe we can upload that fix. I can confirm that blacklisting the files will solve the problem. If you remove /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/sagetex/sagetex.sty from texlive-latex-extra, that will solve the problem. Then, for consistency, remove the directories /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/latex/sagetex/ and /usr/share/doc/texlive-latex-extra-doc/latex/sagetex/ (and all files in them, of course) from texlive-latex-extra-doc. Regards, Dan -- --- Dan Drake ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake -------
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