Bug#70006: base: debiandoc-sgml depends on latex (debiandoc2latexps)
On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 04:37:26PM +0200, Raphael Bossek wrote:
> Package: base
> Version: 20000826
> Severity: important
Why _base_ package? Why important?
> installed today the debiandoc-sgml package to convert the
> Debian Policy to ps and found that the debiandoc2latexps
> package depends on latex but latex where not installed...
debiandoc-sgml package has:
Recommends: libpaperg, tetex-bin, tetex-extra, texinfo
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> the following happens after manual installation of latex :
>
> bossekr@mars:tmp $ debiandoc2latexps policy.sgml
> nsgmls:policy.sgml:4:45:E: cannot find "version.ent"; tried "version.ent", "/usr/local/share/sgml/version.ent", "/usr/local/lib/sgml/version.ent", "/usr/lib/sgml/version.ent"
> nsgmls:policy.sgml:42:24:E: general entity "version" not defined and no default entity
> nsgmls:policy.sgml:42:35:E: general entity "date" not defined and no default entity
> debiandoc2latexps: ERROR: policy.tex could not be generated properly
You need version.ent file, /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/version.ent.gz .
File a bug against debian-policy package, they should ship it uncompressed.
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