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

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:

> From: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>
> Subject: Bug#87699: tetex-bin: Please don't. A "suggests" and possibly  a warning on install is better
> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 00:12:19 +0900
>
> > Santiago's been talking about a user, I'm now talking about
> > Debian infrastructure, and packaging system.
> >
> > Er... this is a woody specific problem in that this is a specific
> > problen in Debian packaging, dpkg nature.
> >
> > The fundamental problem is that
> > dpkg does not allow package contents to be split out.
> >
> > We only have the package name (tetex-bin) to depend upon,
> > not the binary name (usr/bin/texi2html)
>
> I see, but if so, this is a bug of dpkg or something
> and not tetex-bin ;-)

This is a limitation in the packaging system which currently may only
be solved by using a Depends.

You can also decide not to solve it in *any* way, but that would not be
very nice. Just saying "this is a bug in dpkg" will not fix this problem.