Request for updated .bst files

Dear Jason,

On Mo, 26 Nov 2007, JasonVenkiteswaran wrote:
> In 2004, the agu bst files were updated. The Gutsy package texlive-
> publishers 2007-3 still has the old agu files. The new bst files and
> documentation are here:
> ftp://ftp.agu.org/journals/latex/journals/for_BiBTeX/

Could you check whether the updated bst files are present on CTAN, the
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network? Because we (upstream TeX Live)
include only the stuff from CTAN, we cannot check 1500+ packages from
different places around the world.

If the stuff is already on CTAN please let me know and I will update it
in the TeX Live subversion repository and the next release of TeX Live
will include them. If not, please contact the authors to upload the
files to CTAN.

Best wishes

Norbert

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I've contacted Patrick Daly to ask if he will upload the most recent versions of his files to CTAN. The files currently on CTAN (as of right now) are the old files. When I hear back from him, or if someone else has to uploda them, I will update this feature request.

Thank you,
jason.

Hi Jason,

On Mo, 26 Nov 2007, JasonVenkiteswaran wrote:
> I've contacted Patrick Daly to ask if he will upload the most recent
> versions of his files to CTAN. The files currently on CTAN (as of right
> now) are the old files. When I hear back from him, or if someone else
> has to uploda them, I will update this feature request.

Thanks a lot!

Best wishes

Norbert

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Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10?

Yes, it is still reproducible in 8.10.

The package in 8.10 is texlive-publishers (2007.dfsg.2-1ubuntu1). The description says:
This package contains the following CTAN packages:
...
 aguplus -- Styles for American Geophysical Union.
...

The texlive-publishers package provides these files (among others, of course):
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bst/aguplus
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bst/aguplus/agu.bst
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bst/aguplus/agufull.bst

However, over on CTAN there are two other bst files with 04 in their names. See here:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/aguplus/

It's those files, agu04.bst and agufull04.bst that are key. Patrick Daly, the file's authors and copyright holder, has added these versions to CTAN, but now those files, and the update README, have to find their way into the ubuntu packages.

Thanks.

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

I've switched the Status back to New since in Karmic, the *04.bst files are still not in the texmf tree:

$ ls /usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bst/aguplus
agu.bst agufull.bst

But over on CTAN there are two corresponding *04.bst files:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/aguplus/

Those BST files should be included in the Ubuntu packages.

Thanks,
jason.

Confirming as per the previous comment about this not being integrated yet. Also as this is not a bug, but rather a request to have a feature added to an existing package, this is being marked 'wishlist'. Thank you.

This bug is no longer reproducible in Natty. The *04.bst files are already in the texmf tree:

ls /usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bst/aguplus
agu04.bst agu.bst agufull04.bst agufull.bst

Best wishes,
Ivan