the daemon told me:
The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: libertine-type1 and biolinum-type1 Author's name: Bob Tennent Package version: 5.3.0 (2012-10-25) Location on CTAN: fonts/{libertine,biolinum}-type1/ Summary description: [pdf]latex support for the Linux Libertine and Biolinum families of fonts License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
Requests for slanted variants are now satisfied by the italic variants.
The substitutions are implemented by ssubs in the fd files rather than re-defining slshape.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/libertine-type1.html http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biolinum-type1.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/%7Blibertine,biolinum%7D-type1/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team