CTAN Update: hobsub
hobsub (and hobsub-generic and hobsub-hyperref) The hobsub packages were disabled at the previous release and have now been moved from oberdiek to a separate repository. https://github.com/ho-tex/hobsub
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/hobsub The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/hobsub/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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hobsub – Construct package bundles
Heiko Oberdiek’s hobsub package (and hobsub-hyperref and hobsub-generic packages) defined a mechanism for concatenating multiple files into a single file for faster loading.
The disadvantage is that it introduces hard dependencies between the source files that are included and complicates distribution and updates.
It was principally used with hyperref but is not currently used in any standard packages in TeX Live.
The packages are still distributed as simple stubs that reference the included packages via \RequirePackage rather than copying their source.
The documented source of the original packages is available at github, but is not distributed to CTAN.
| Package | hobsub |
| Version | 2019-11-14 |
| Copyright | 2019 Oberdiek Package Support Group |
| Maintainer | Heiko Oberdiek |