Re: LaTeX packaging policy

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On Sat, 24 Dec 2022 at 13:03, Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> wrote:

> While using a bit of LaTeX recently, I've noticed some packages don't
> work "out-of-the-box", at least on LuaLaTeX, and need some additional
> propagated inputs.  Examples would be babel-french needing scalefnt,
> fontspec needing luaotfload, or hyperref needing stringenc.  Is there
> any established policy for what propagated-inputs need to be included in
> package definitions?  Should we add some LaTeX specific packaging
> guidelines in the manual, like for Python or Rust (the former is
> outdated by the way, mentioning Python 2 packages).

All the inputs are they required as propagated-inputs?  Or only some?

Maybe it could be worth to fix the broken packages (the examples above)
and see if a pattern emerge for writing down a policy.

Or maybe, we could propagate all the inputs since TeX can be considered
as stable enough for minimizing the clash of versions.


Cheers,
simon