CTAN has a new package: ltxnew

[CTAN Announcements]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009,  Florent Chervet submitted the new package

  ltxnew

to CTAN.

Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ltxnew
Summary description: ltxnew provides the \new, \renew and \provide prefixes for checking definition of control sequences
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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 ltxnew provides the  \new, \renew and  \provide prefixes for checking
 definitions. It is designed to work with e-TeX distributions of LaTeX
 and relies on the LaTeX macro \@ifdefinable.

 Local  allocation  of counters,  dimensions,  skips,  muskips,  boxes,
 tokens  and marks  are provided by the  etex.sty package.

 \new  and  \renew  as well  as  \provide  may be used  for all kind of
 control sequences. Please refer to the section "Using \new" of the pdf
 documentation.
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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ltxnew
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=ltxnew
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf