Bug#51869: tetex-base: Request for tetex-base-doc

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Elrond <Elrond+debian@Wunder-Nett.org> wrote:

>
> For the legal part:
> The distribution as a whole should contain the relevant
> files, but the user might have the option of not installing
> some things (rpm has a --do-not-install-docs option for
> example)
>
> For the rest:
> I guess, the right thing to do is:
> Have "Recommends: tetex-xxx-doc" or "Recommends:
> tetex-xxx-doc (= Version)" in the package description of
> tetex-xxx.
>
> Recommends means: "You should install this, otherwise
> expect problems".

You're probably right, in most cases. I'll try to provide a patch that
includes the Recommends.

>
> If 99994 gets closed again for already known valid reasons,
> we should move this discussion to 51869.

Yes, EOD (here).

Bye, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie