Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.81; Problems with lastpage.sty

[Bernd Strieder]

Hello,

you wrote:
> Bernd Strieder <address@hidden> writes:
> > lastpage.sty    1994/06/25 v0.1b LaTeX2e package for refs to
> > last page number (
> > JPG)
>
> Here, that is the problem.  (
>  JPG)
> confuses the file name parsing/detection.  This file is under
> the GPL, so you are free to modify it without changing its
> name.  Look for (JPG) in the file and delete the "LaTeX2e
> package for") bit, it is redundant anyway.

Copying lastpage.sty under texmf-local and changing according to 
your suggestion does the trick. Thanks a lot.

Is it possible to patch preview-latex to not getting trapped on 
this problem? I hope so, because then I can just wait for the 
next release then forget about my local lastpage.sty, and 
everything is on par again.

I have just tried, there are at least 113 other packages with a 
trailing (Whatever) in the provides-line, most times it is the 
authors name, so I think there are strong arguments to patch 
preview, or you will have a hard time trying to persuade 113 
package authors. It might be easier to write a previewifier in 
this case to run over the texmf tree. ;-) There are quite a lot 
popular packages affected.

Bernd Strieder