[tex-live] Patches for dvidvi

[Robin Fairbairns]

Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Jul 2007, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> > > >  - Markus Kohm: 1.1 in 1994 at the latest
> > > 
> > > So this means AFAIS that TeX Live *IS* upstream. If we just feed in the
> > > changes and make sure that they compile on all arch/os combinations then
> > > we are gone. Right?
> > > 
> > > Karl???
> > 
> > karl generally says that tex-live is downstream from ctan.
> > 
> > however, if the author(s) don't want to put stuff on ctan, it's not
> > clear to me what the rules are.
> 
> What I wanted to say is that since it seems that there is no upstream,
> we at TeX Live are caring for that the stuff still compiles, fits into
> TeX Live etc. In this sense upstream.

but we shouldn't expect a copy of the updated package, except as part of
texlive?

should we delete dviware/dvidvi now?