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