Bug#60253: More clearly

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 03:31:56AM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote:
>  > tetex-bin contains basic binaries of teTeX and they need
>  > macros, fonts, etc. which should be contained in imaginary/virtual
>  > tetex-base package.
> 
> normally you would have do depend as follows, because -base can not do
> without -bin and viceversa:
> 
> tetex-base depends on tetex-bin
> tetex-bin depends on tetex-base

In that case, what's the point of separating those two packages? You should
put them in the same package if the components can't do without each other.

> You will find arguments for both, but when I designed the packages,
> dpkg could not handle it (and I think it can not handle it yet), so I
> had to change one of the depends to a suggest.

I think that current dpkg can handle that. But OTOH, see above.

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