Bug#139298: tetex-base: pdfelatex doesn't work without tetex-extra

[David Kimdon <dwhedon@debian.org>]

Package: tetex-base
Version: 1.0.2+20011202-2
Severity: important

Hi,

The pdfelatex binary doesn't appear to be usable without tetex-extra
installed.  Perhaps pdfelatex should be moved to the tetex-extra
package.

Here I try to use pdfelatex:
$ pdfelatex midterm.tex 
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20011114-ojmw-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7)
I can't find the format file `pdfelatex.efmt'!
$ dpkg -S pdfelatex
tetex-bin: /usr/bin/pdfelatex
tetex-bin: /usr/share/man/man1/pdfelatex.1.gz


It doesn't work until I install tetex-extra:
$ su
# apt-get install tetex-extra
 . . . snip snip . . . 
# exit
$ pdfelatex midterm.tex 
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20011114-ojmw-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7)
entering extended mode
 . . . snip snip . . . 
Output written on midterm.pdf (1 page, 22602 bytes).
Transcript written on midterm.log.
$


Thanks,

David 

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux oink 2.4.18 #1 Thu Mar 14 20:07:41 PST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii  dpkg                          1.9.19     Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  texinfo                       4.1-1      Documentation system for on-line i