Michael,

Tetex 2 will be in Scientific Linux 4 .

-Connie Sieh

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Jan Iven 
wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 02:32, Michael Hannon wrote:
> > Greetings.  One of the grad students here pointed out to me that version
> >   3.0 of teTeX has been released, as of February, 2005.  The new version
> > evidently has some very nice features.
> > 
> > We're currently running RHEL/SL 3.0.3, both of which appear to be using
> > teTeX version 1.
> > 
> > RHEL 4 and Fedora Core 3 are both running teTeX version 2.
> > 
> > Is there any hope of getting teTeX version 3 integrated into a
> > distribution in the foreseeable future?
> 
> Looks like it should appear in FedoraCore4 (which will possibly become
> Red Hat Enterprise 5, which may then turn into ScientificLinux 5):
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=147668
> So if we want to stay compatible to Red Hat, teTeX-3 looks to be far
> away. An update in a released distribution from Red Hat is unlikely.
> 
> This will not prevent anybody from repackaging the RPMs to co-exist with
> the current teTeX-1 (e.g. create a tetex3 RPM). Or we could throw RH
> compatibility overboard and upgrade for everybody, but this is rather
> political. Both would be a long-term commitment to maintain this SL
> version, including fixing these pesky security issues:
> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-354.html
> 
> The alternative would be to bugzilla those new features from -3 that are
> making life difficult under -1. Perhaps bit&pieces can be backported.
> 
> Regards
> Jan
>