Bug#87699: tetex-bin: Please don't. A "suggests" and possibly a warning on install is better
On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 19:24:01 -0800
"C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com> wrote:
> "JU" == Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> writes:
>
> JU> If I am not misunderstanding the issue, tetex-bin in
> JU> potato contained, texi2html ?
>
> Potato != woody. In woody, texi2html is its own package.
> Packages that depended on tetex-bin for texi2html in potato need
> to depend on texi2html in woody.
potato+1 = woody. It is unreasonable to expect that everything to
be changed in this one revision.
> If they don't, that's the fault of the package maintainers who
> haven't kept their Build-Depends up to date.
>
> Let's be real here. If you've got a package with missing
> Build-Depends, it shouldn't take you more than five minutes to
> edit the control file and fix the problem, plus however long it
> takes you to build the new package and upload it to the archive.
Then fix it yourself, please.
If it only takes 5 minutes for you, please do.
regards,
junichi
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