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Re: advice on bug reporting



Frank Lichtenheld (frank@lichtenheld.de) wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 06:11:07PM +0100, GCS wrote:
> > So so, I have installed tetex-bin by hand, and got an other error -
> > needed tetex-extra as well. Shouldn't debiandoc-sgml depend on tetex-bin
> > and tetex-extra?
> 
> debiandoc-sgml Recommends tetex-bin and tetex-extra which is a perfectly
> valid choice for a dependency that is only required by a particular part
> of the package. (And every sane apt frontend should've installed
> these dependencies anyway if not manually configured ;)

And also the package description is very clear about this:

    The LaTeX based output needs the libpaperg, tetex-bin and tetex-extra
    packages.  The Texinfo based output needs the texinfo package.

Thanks,
Ardo
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