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- Subject: octave shouldn't depend on texinfo
- From: neologix@free.fr
- Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:10:39 +0100
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Package: octave2.1 I think that texinfo is only required if you intend to modify the documentation. http://www.octave.org/doc/Installation.html Indeed, it triggers a conflict when tring to install latex, because texinfo requires tex-common, which conflicts with tetex-base and tetex-bin. I'd suggest to switch texinfo dependency from depends to recommends, or suggests.
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- To: neologix@free.fr, 351970-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#351970: octave shouldn't depend on texinfo
- From: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>
- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:34:57 +0100
- Message-id: <20060209103457.GE10677@laboiss2>
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* neologix@free.fr <neologix@free.fr> [2006-02-08 22:10]: > Package: octave2.1 > > I think that texinfo is only required if you intend to modify the > documentation. http://www.octave.org/doc/Installation.html > > I'd suggest to switch texinfo dependency from depends to recommends, or > suggests. Well, octave calls /usr/bin/makeinfo (which is in the texinfo package) to format the help messages. If makeinfo is not installed, Octave still works, but the help messages are not nicely formatted. This is definitely not a desirable situation. I am hence closing this bug report. If you disagree, please reopen this bug report and we will discuss the issue with the other members of the Debian Octave Group. > Indeed, it triggers a conflict when tring to install latex, because > texinfo requires tex-common, which conflicts with tetex-base and > tetex-bin. If this is really the case, then I urge you to fill a bug report against texinfo, tex-common, or whichever package is causing the problem. -- Rafael
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