Bug#87699: tetex-bin: Please don't. A "suggests" and possibly a warning on install is better

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
Subject: Bug#87699: tetex-bin: Please don't. A "suggests" and possibly  a warning on install is better
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:14:29 +0100 (CET)

> > I agree.  tetex-bin does NOT depend on texi2html in fact.
> >
> > If a lack of texi2html causes inconvenience to a user, he can
> > search texi2html in dselect or in other ways.
> >
> > If there is no objection I will close this.
> 
> Well, I object.
> 
> The policy recomendation is for the general case, but this case is
> special because texi2html was in tetex-bin in potato. I do not
> propose to make tetex-bin to depend on texi2html forever, I just
> propose doing so for woody. After woody the dependency may be dropped.
> 
> Upgrades *should* be smooth. An upgrade should never make the user to
> lose functionality, or force the user to search for information to make
> the system to work as before if this cann be avoided.

I understood your point but your argumets that a former
tetex-bin contained texi2html so every (or many) users of
former tetex-bin also would need texi2html is not so sure.

I need strongly tetex-bin but I have never (umm, or seldom ;-)
used texi2html.

Further, it seems not a good idea to get smooth upgrading with
a wrong dependency.

I believe this is the problem that the maintainer should decide
how to deal with.

Best regards,			2002.2.25

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