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jones

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Registered: 2013-03-14

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Is this package out of date or not?? Should I write the maintainer?

So the package texlive-fontsextra contains Tex Live packages for fonts.
Some of the packages apparently have received an update in TL itself, however they haven't been re-packaged yet (to update the aforementioned Arch Linux package).

On https://archlinux.org/packages/flaghelp/ it says:

If you notice that a package is out-of-date (i.e., there is a newer stable release available), then please notify us by using the Flag button in the Package Details screen.

Is it really out-of-date though? The package is a meta package... in a way. Right?

Would be the right way to write the maintainer/Remy an email directly then? (as the next step, as the flagging date was a few months ago)

This is a first for me and I would like to avoid getting on someone's nerves and ask them for well, free work, in a way.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Is this package out of date or not?? Should I write the maintainer?

texlive* is different then most other packages.

Check https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q … =&flagged= and you'll notice all of them were packaged on the same day.

If I remember correctly, updating texlive is a lot of work and only done  a few times per year.

Are there things in the newer versions you need or that solve issues ?

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jones

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Registered: 2013-03-14

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Re: Is this package out of date or not?? Should I write the maintainer?

I expected that.

The one issue I can bring up here is an error with the Inter Font .

With

\usepackage[sfdefault]{inter}
% but NOT %\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}!!

the following error is produced:

!pdfTeX error: /usr/bin/pdflatex (file a_bal5qf.enc): cannot open encoding file
 for reading
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

And this problem was solved in an updated version: https://github.com/ccebinger/CTAN_Inter/issues/3

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: Is this package out of date or not?? Should I write the maintainer?

If the package has a bug you can open a bug report on the Arch bug tracker.
The wiki mentions TeX_Live#tllocalmgr to install local updates as packages.
https://www.tug.org/texlive/ lists April 2021 release that Arch packages as the latest release.