2009/10/30 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com>:
I'm presenting a complete list of packages shipped in TeX Live
to
discuss another possible obsoletions:
dvipdfm
dvipdfmx
I think the latest TeXLive doesn't include dvipdfm as its
functionality is now covered by dvipdfmx. Anyway, In both cases I am
the packager, and would rather see the texlive variant shipped and the
packages obsoleted.
xdvi
Again, would prefer if we obsoleted the separate package
and went with
the texlive variant. Here however we may need to shipp a separate
package for the japanese patched version. Or we could integrate the
japanese patch into texlive - this may need some work though, as the
japanese patch seems to be unmaintined presently. Longer term I hope
xdvi just goes away, as its functionality increasingly gets added to
evince - xdvi is only minimally maintained at this point and is
rather... crusty.
dvipng
Yep, we should simply go with the texlive version - I am happy with
this, as dvipng maintainer.
xdvipdfmx
I'm not primary maintainer of this one, but again, I think we should
go with the texlive shipped version (which is ahead of the version
available as a separate tarball).
Let me know if you need any help with this.
Cheers,
Jonathan