Comment 4 for bug 132399

Hi!

On Do, 27 Sep 2007, Christoph Lechleitner wrote:
> I googled some comment that said that fancyheadings.sty was removed from debian's TeX packages because it has been marked obsolete for some time.
> This is very ruthless youngster thinking and absolutly unacceptable!

Come down boy ... ever heard about fanczhdr ... if you are so much
better in packaging then do it yourself ...

> + TeX styles has never been removed from LaTeX ever, there is no reason to!

Hahaha ...

> + Millions of .tex documents use this style and nobody is going to adapt them (which is very difficult btw.!).

Send me a list of millions of documents. NOBODY EVER EVER EVER said that
LaTeX is fixed.

If you want that your documents will be processed in THE ONE WAY
forever, write TeX, plain TeX, not even plain format.

> + Thounsands of scripts of old TeX users at companies, academic organisations and so on produce tex documents using this style and it's almost impossible to adapt them!

Really, what about
 s/fancyheadings/fancyhdr/

> + We rather live with old LaTeX than some youngster's stuff that lacks backward compatibility!!!

Thanks for calling me youngster ...enjoy your time and come back when
you have grown up.

Best wishes

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining <email address hidden> Vienna University of Technology
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