Amer Amikhteh submitted the
pkgmeta
package.
Version: 1.0 2026-09-29 License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Retrieve metadata from LaTeX packages and files without loading them
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Initial release of pkgmeta, a small LaTeX package for retrieving package and file metadata without loading the target file. It supports \ProvidesPackage, \ProvidesFile, \ProvidesExplPackage, and \ProvidesExplFile, with a text-based LuaTeX backend and a readprov backend for XeTeX and pdfTeX.
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The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pkgmeta/
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For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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