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

["C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>]

[Note that I've edited the addresses to go to the bug, with a cc:
to Junichi.]

"JU" == Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>

    JU> Then fix it yourself, please.  If it only takes 5 minutes
    JU> for you, please do.

Getting a bit of perspective here, I find 87 packages[1] that have
a dependency on tetex-bin.  Of those, 29 packages[2] also have a
dependency on texinfo (which hasn't been part of tetex-bin since
potato was released).  Of the 29 packages depending on tetex-bin
and texinfo, *all* of them include a dependency on texi2html.

Do we really even have a problem here?

   CMC

+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
 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
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
  C.M. Connelly               c@eskimo.com                   SHC, DS
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+

[1] Packages with a dependency on tetex-bin:

   a2ps, adolc, aleph, allegro3937, am-utils, apt-dpkg-ref,
   autogen, bibtex2html, bigloo, boa, clif, cweb, cwebx,
   doc-debian-es, doxygen, dstooltk-doc, dvb, dwarfs-debian-guide,
   emwin, esh, ess, fdutils, flick, fpc, freefem, fudgit, gcl,
   gdb, geomview, glame, glpk, gnome-games, gnuplot, gocr, gpm,
   gprolog, greg, guile-oops, gvd, hbf-cns40-1, hbf-cns40-2,
   hbf-cns40-3, hbf-cns40-4, hbf-cns40-5, hbf-cns40-6,
   hbf-cns40-7, hbf-cns40-b5, hbf-jfs56, hbf-kanji48, iproute,
   kdegraphics, kimwitu-doc, laptop-net, lgrind, libgocr, libsrgp,
   lilo, lilypond, linuxdoc-tools, malaga, mdk, mgetty, mifluz,
   mit-scheme, mldvi, mlton, moon-buggy, musixtex, nco, ocamlweb,
   octave2, pari, pcb, pspp, ptex-bin, r-base, replicator,
   roleplaying, sane-backends, sgb, t1lib, transfig, uudeview,
   wmaker-usersguide, xfree86, zebra, zlibc

[2] Packages with a dependency on tetex-bin and texinfo:

   a2ps, allegro3937, am-utils, autogen, bigloo, boa, ess,
   fdutils, gcl, gdb, glame, glpk, gpm, gprolog, greg, guile-oops,
   gvd, laptop-net, lilypond, linuxdoc-tools, mdk, mgetty, mifluz,
   mit-scheme, moon-buggy, nco, octave2, pcb, zlibc


There are 43 packages that depend on texi2html (with or without
other dependencies):

   a2ps, acct, am-utils, autoconf, autoconf2, autogen, bc, bigloo,
   boa, bow, cssc, cvs, dep, e2fsprogs, esh, fdutils, geomview,
   gimp-print, glibc, gnats, greg, grub, gtypist, ispell,
   lambdamoo-docs, laptop-net, m2c, mgetty, mit-scheme, mmucl,
   nco, pcb, pspp, python-oss, regex, saml, sipp, time, wget,
   xemacs21, zlibc, zsh, zsh-beta


(Note: Data extracted from the Sources files for testing on my
machine, updated 2002 March 4.)