Oh that one ... we had that down there in Debian at some point. I guess that is easy to fix in latex.ltx from which the format is dumped. Yeah, this time-bomb is a strange thing. I am not happy about it ... but who…
Support for older versions, good question. Yeah, I understand the need, but there is a simple reason, manpower. We are quite overloaded with keeping the normal process running. Doing this in parallel is not something we…
That is a CTAN mirror, and not a path to a tlnet. You have to use http://ctan.mackichan.com/systems/texlive/tlnet and that works fine.
What do you mean with "fix this mess"? I have done the first packaging of TeX Live ever for Debian in 2005, and I am responsible also for the "mess" upstream, so if you have complains, esp what you want to get "fixed",…
Oh that one ... we had that down there in Debian at some point. I guess that is easy to fix in latex.ltx from which the format is dumped. Yeah, this time-bomb is a strange thing. I am not happy about it ... but who…
Support for older versions, good question. Yeah, I understand the need, but there is a simple reason, manpower. We are quite overloaded with keeping the normal process running. Doing this in parallel is not something we…
That is a CTAN mirror, and not a path to a tlnet. You have to use http://ctan.mackichan.com/systems/texlive/tlnet and that works fine.
What do you mean with "fix this mess"? I have done the first packaging of TeX Live ever for Debian in 2005, and I am responsible also for the "mess" upstream, so if you have complains, esp what you want to get "fixed",…