Re: forwarded message from CTAN Announcements via ctan-ann

On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 at 13:29, Norman Gray wrote:
> On 23 Aug 2025, at 4:38, Reinhard Kotucha via tex-live wrote:
>
> > I don't see any usable documentation at all.  Do we really want to
> > have this package in TL?
>
> The package appears to be a few convenience macros helpful to a particular author.  The link within the documentation, namely <https://zenodo.org/records/16894226>, is to a collection of supplementary materials for a manuscript submission.

Did you actually manage to find Supplementary_Information.pdf
somewhere on that link?

> The submitter has been diligent in packaging this as a .sty file, but I doubt this would be of much use to any other author.

Personally I don't see much value in including this in TL.

But also ...

On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 at 06:20, Don Hosek wrote:
>
> The layout is unfortunate, with that meaningless pdf in the root directory. The actual documentation lives in
>
> doc/latex/entropy-coupled-operator-dynamic/

Independent of the layout, the documentation may not even be
distributed with TeX Live because there is no source.

Anyway:
- The package only provides two commands. What is there to be documented?
- Even with the two commands that could theoretically be documented
(and a few more auxiliary ones), the pdf doesn't contain the visual
rendering of the two commands.
- With the limited number of pages there are: the typesetting (line
breaks etc.) is horrible. The PDF document claims to be generated with
Matplotlib???
- Does anyone happen to understand what "Quantum-biophysical framework
for consciousness and universal interconnection" is about?

$ pdfinfo entropy-coupled-operator-dynamic.pdf
Creator:         Matplotlib v3.6.3, https://matplotlib.org
Producer:        Matplotlib pdf backend v3.6.3
CreationDate:    Wed Aug 20 04:59:38 2025 Central Europe Summer Time

My vote would be a clear "no". (Hack, my vote would be to remove it from CTAN.)

See also:
    https://github.com/agamsubarna-create/Subarna-Kumar-Humagai/blob/main/README.md
    https://github.com/agamsubarna-create

Honestly, it looks like clear spam to me.
(More likely than not, possibly AI-generated and trying to build an
online reputation for later, for whatever reason. I've seen a lot of
GitHub contributions creating bogus issues or pull requests, or bogus
repositories. While I don't have any proof that this is one of them, I
clearly see no value either way.)

Mojca