magyar.ldf shipped with texlive is outdated

[Peter Kerekfy]

Binary package hint: texlive-latex-base

The magyar.ldf file shipped with texlive is very outdated. Please update to the most recent version available on CTAN:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hungarian/babel/magyar.ldf

This upgrade is very important if someone is intended to create hungarian documents using LaTeX since the old version makes so many mistakes and conflicts with so many other TeX packages.

This bug is present in both gutsy and hardy.

[Norbert Preining (preining)]

On Fr, 07 Mär 2008, Peter Kerekfy wrote:
> The magyar.ldf file shipped with texlive is very outdated. Please update
> to the most recent version available on CTAN:
>
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hungarian/babel/magyar.ldf

That is a core babel file and we will not replace core babel files with
something else. The respective upstream authors have to work together to
get this fixed. Before the magyar.ldf 1.5 from the above location has
not been merged into babel we will not ship it per default as
replacement.

Best wishes

Norbert

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[Zsolt Dollenstein (zsol)]

At least the fact that it's so outdated should be noted somewhere along the lines of README.Debian or near it probably with a link to this bug. This would at least let users avoid a few hours of confusion until they find this report (like I did).

[Tamás Kiss (tkiss80)]

Yes, it would be greatly appreciated if Hungarian users were warned about the problem. I spent a whole day searching the bug in LyX until I finally realized that the problem is in the underlying LaTeX environment. The fact that magyar.ldf breaks even amsthm - which is essential for using Theorem-like environments - is very important, and users should know it.

[Dylan Aïssi (daissi)]

Fixed since Trusty (texlive-base 2013.20130905-1)