Bug#100332: tetex-bin: please move xdvi to its own package
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 01:21:02AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > A better way might be to just Suggests: the xlibs package. (This can
> > be done using the -d option to dpkg-shlibdeps and doing xdvi
> > separately from the other binaries, something like:
> > dh_shlibdeps -X xdvi.bin -- -dSuggests -edebian/tmp/usr/bin/xdvi.bin
> > or similar.)
> >
> > Then in the xdvi wrapper, check that the necessary library is
> > present.
>
> We are (hopefully) shortly before a freeze, so don't let us make such
> changes. The splitting of the tetex-* packages is on our TODO list (but
> delayed until woody is released).
>
>
> To make it short:
>
> tetex-bin in woody will continue to depend on xlibs.
> This will change after woody is released.
> End of discussion.
We're at least 2-3 months away from tetex being frozen. My suggestion
is to remove the dependency on xlibs without splitting the package:
basically, anyone trying to use xdvi should be working under X
already, so will automatically have xlibs. The only issue might be
version skew. I wouldn't like to have xdvi in a package on its own;
that would be downright confusing.
Julian
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