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



(Note that I've edited the headers to direct this message to the
bug, with a cc: to Junichi and the texi2html package maintainer --
I assume everyone else will get it via the BTS forwards.)

"JG" == Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmul.ac.uk>
"JU" == Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>

    JU> It is unreasonable to expect that everything to do
    JU> transition in one release. At least, make tetex-bin depend
    JU> on texi2html for woody.

    JG> It is not unreasonable.  

What he said.

    JG> Nevertheless, the dependency may be wise anyway.

I'm okay with a ``Suggests'' for texi2html.  A ``Depends'' -- in
addition to being a lie -- would force untold numbers of people
who have tetex-bin installed to install texi2html, whether or not
they have any interest in texi2html.

As for getting a note into the release notes about texi2html's
changed status, it seems like that job belongs to texi2html's
maintainer, Peter Moulder.

  CMC

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 Man cannot be civilised, or be kept civilised by what he does in his
	    spare time; only by what he does as his work.
			     W.R. Lethaby
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  C.M. Connelly               c@eskimo.com                   SHC, DS
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