Bug 271332

Summary:	dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2008 natbib module is outdated
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Santiago Bruno <bootstrap.sh>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	tex
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Santiago Bruno 2009-05-26 18:29:25 UTC

I have installed dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2008-r1 and I had a problem citing bibliographic items using the natlib package. Cites with many authors are writen (Author et~al., year). That tilde between et and al shouldn't be printed out.

I solved it by installing manually a newer version of natbib, 8.3 available at ctan [1]. The ebuild installs version 8.1

I'm not sure who creates the texlive-module-natbib-2008.tar.lzma file, if it is maitained by gentoo or tex community, so I'm sorry if this isn't the correct place to report.

[1] http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/natbib.html

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-05-26 18:38:29 UTC

The TeXLive team maintains that package and I am sure, the Gentoo TeX team (which is one person at the moment) won't do anything about it.