Bug#170382: Upgrade forces users to install 7MB of extra libs
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20011202-8
Severity: normal
Hi,
if you disagree with the severity of this bugreport, then feel free to
change it. If you really consider closing it, then provide please also
some explanation.
Today when I wanted to update my system, I noticed that the upgrade of
tetex-bin from the above given version to version 1.0.7+20021025-3
forced me to install perl-tk, which means 7MB. I then looked at the
changelog on auric and saw that this change was introduced to one binary
needing it. While I'm in favour of fixing the bug by adding some
dependency, I'm not in favour of forcing everybody to install another
7MB of necessary, especially since not many people are using the command
in question. Please consider splitting out the binary (or maybe
binaries) in an extra package depending on perl-tk or some other
solution which doesn't force everybody to install another 7MB of unused
libraries. I'm for now going to stick with version 1.0.7+20011202-8
until an upgrade doesn't force me to install 7MB extra. Thanks for
looking into this.
Christian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux salem 2.4.20-rc2 #1 Sun Nov 17 10:28:49 CET 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debianutils 1.22.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.10.9 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-19 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.1-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libkpathsea3 1.0.7+20011202-8 shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii libpng3 1.2.5-6 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library
ii libtiff3g 3.5.7-1 Tag Image File Format library
ii libxaw7 4.2.1-3 X Athena widget set library
ii tetex-base 1.0.2+20011202-3 basic teTeX library files
ii xlibs 4.2.1-3 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-6 compression library - runtime
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