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[Paulo Ney de Souza]

Reinhard,

When we took over the maintenance of "detex" we got a BUNCH of patches
(from TeXLive maintainers) that were regularly being applied to it for the
TeXLive compilation. I, in fact did check each one of them, and they were
all being a part of the compiled version of "detex" being distributed by
TeXLive.

I can go back and dig the e-mails, but I hope that is not necessary -- the
old code-base did not even compile.

Ultimately this boils down to -- what is the difference between requiring
"self-relocating" and "correct encoding" ??? To me they are both properties
of good code and they can be equally required. Why one and not the other?

Paulo Ney

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 6:50 PM Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>
wrote:

> On 2020-03-13 at 18:09:02 -0700, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:
>
>  > TeXLive does change a LOT of people's projects and files [...]
>
> Definitely not.  Can you provide an example?
>
>  > If you saw something wrong in a program -- you would change it --
>  > and possibly feed it back to the owner.
>
> This can't work.  Bugs have to fixed upstream.  Otherwise such a big
> distribution like TeX Live would be completely unmaintainable, not to
> mention legal issues.
>
> Karl et al. pointed out more than once that TeX Live provides exactly
> what is on CTAN and that bug reports have to be sent to package authors.
>
> TeX Live definitely never changes other people's files.
>
> Regards,
>   Reinhard
>
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