Bug#87699: tetex-bin: Please don't. A "suggests" and possibly a warning on install is better
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20001218-7
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Having a Depends that are not correct forces people keep the package on
there system (or use dpkg --force) for no good reason at all.
I encourage you to follow policy's recomendations, and use a Suggests:
This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one
or more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and the
user that the listed packages are related to this one and can
perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without
them is perfectly reasonable.
dselect will show the user things packages suggest, no?
If this is not enough, you could display a message during upgrade.
- -- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux bohr 2.4.16 #2 SMP Wed Nov 28 05:25:00 EST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debianutils 1.15 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.9.18 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-19 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.2.4-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libkpathsea3 1.0.7+20001218-7 shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii libpng2 1.0.12-2 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.011006 The GNU stdc++ library
ii libtiff3g 3.5.5-6 Tag Image File Format library
ii libwww0 5.3.2-8 The W3C WWW library
ii libxaw7 4.1.0-9 X Athena widget set library
ii tetex-base 1.0.2+20011202-1 basic teTeX library files
ii xlibs 4.1.0-9 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.3-18 compression library - runtime
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