the daemon tells me (and i eventually respond):
The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: tabu Author's name: Florent CHERVET Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tabu Summary description: Flexible LaTeX tabulars License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
tabu - Flexible LaTeX tabulars
tabu enhances tabular, array and tabularx A single environment: tabu for both text and math mode X columns with optional modifiers for width and alignment
No change of array.sty to ensure perfect compatibility.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the package, and made an entry for it in the catalogue repository.
Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/tabu.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tabu/
the catalogue entry will not appear on the web until some time tonight.
NOTE: this package was submitted some days ago. while there is no doubt of its quality, the ctan team were uneasy about its name; we therefore delayed installation while we tried to think of an alternative ... and we failed, so i have now installed.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team