I can confirm that the fancyheadings.sty is not installed withe neither texlive-latex-extra nor tetex-extra packages.
I do not see any reason to declare the packages fancyheadings.sty as obsolete; even if there is one, there is no reason to remove it from Ubuntu, ever. If not in main packages, it could be available as 'latex-compat' or similar. I had to processed some of my older Latex files, and instead of getting a DVI in a second I had to google for hours to find why the thing does not work. Clearly the suggested s/fancyheadings/fancyhdr/ is *NOT* a solution. Think of the archive files processed off CD... Please, put the fancyheadings.sty back into some Ubuntu package. Norbert Preining wrote on 2007-09-27: >> + TeX styles has never been removed from LaTeX ever, there is no reason to! > Hahaha ... > ... > > Please do add back this file. > Will not happen. Put it into your TEXMFLOCAL if you need it so > desperately. Hmm... this doesn't sound like "linux for human beings", does it? Yes we all *can* put it into TEXMFLOCAL, or install LaTeX by hand into /usr/local/, or make our own .deb package, or even our own Linux-from--scratch distro -- but then the whole sence in using Ubuntu vanishes. The lack of backwards compartibility is a serious problem and hits the usability of LaTeX in general and Ubuntu in particular. Remember all these MS .doc files that could not be read with the next version of Word? I use(d) LaTeX exactely for the purpose of having my texts available in the future when I need them. Having arbitrary packages marked as "obsolete" and removed without explanation leaves me (us?) with a bitter feeling... Regards, Saulius -- fancyheadings.sty disappeared https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132399 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs