Bug#87699: tetex-bin: Please don't. A "suggests" and possibly a warning on install is better

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>
Subject: Re: Bug#87699: tetex-bin: Please don't. A "suggests" and possibly a warning on install is better
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 07:07:27 +0900

> "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com> cum veritate scripsit:
> 
> > Sorry to have not chimed in earlier, but wouldn't a better
> > solution be to have the tetex-bin in potato provide a virtual
> > package called ``texi2html'' that is then replaced by the real
> > texi2html package in woody?
> 
> We don't have a time machine.
> 
> We can only compensate for past problems with some hack.

I am not sure but doesn't 
Build-Depends: tetex-bin (<= 1.0.6-7) | texi2html (>= 1.64)
work?

Or those packages could include texi2html in themselves
for building only...

From: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: Bug#87699: tetex-bin: Please don't. A "suggests" and possibly a warning on install is better 
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 14:32:30 -0800

> PDF documentation from TeX files.  If all they're using tetex-bin
> for is to generate HTML from Texinfo files, and the program to do
> that transformation isn't part of tetex-bin, then those other
> packages are broken, not tetex-bin.

I agreed.

Best regards,			2002.3.4

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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