Re: ox-latex: default packages cleaning

[Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>]

Hi Robert,

Robert Klein <roklein@roklein.de> writes:

>> * Fixltx2e
>> 
>> This packages is depreciated with TL2015 cf. LaTeX News 22.  We can
>> use \RequirePackage[current]{latexrelease} but there's no point in
>> that.... AFAIK latexrelease only useful for backwards compatibility.
>
> Leaving this out probably doesn't break texing with older
> texlive versions.
>
> Please try to keep export compatible to older versions.  I have a
> couple of computers where I can use new versions of org-mode (and an
> appropriate version of emacs), where it is not feasible to install a
> newer version of texlive.

The target of Org 8.3 is 24.3.  I don't know if there's a policy wrt
targeting older versions of auxiliary software.

In the case of fixltx2 it's reasonable to only remove it from the default
packages after the release of Org 8.3.  Extrapolating, users of org-stable
will only see that change 1-2 years from now.

Rasmus

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