Re: Relationships between tetex-packages
From: frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)
Subject: Relationships between tetex-packages
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:30:08 +0200
> due to the reasons given by Elrond and me in the discussion under bug
> #99994 (where it doesn't belong), I propose to add a
>
> Recommends: tetex-doc
>
> line to tetex-base and tetex-extra. Shortly: It's good for most users,
> it annoys package authors that people don't read (up-to-date)
> documentation.
It seems good idea. It might be enough that only tetex-base
Recommends: tetex-doc however.
> Looking at tetex-base's control file, I noticed that tetex-doc itself
> has a versioned Depends: on tetex-base. I couldn't find anything why
> this is the case - can anybody explain this? It seems to me a Recommends
> would be sufficient, too.
I don't know precisely the reason (it was already in the current
relation when I began to maintain tetex) but, from the packaging
point of view, there is a symlink
civic:~$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2003-09-09 13:44 /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc -> tetex-base/
and also the following symlink was provided in tetex-base
civic:~$ ls -l /usr/share/texmf/doc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2003-10-24 15:15 /usr/share/texmf/doc -> /usr/share/doc/texmf/
I guess these might be the reason that tetex-doc Depends: tetex-base
Is there anyone who knows historical reason?
Further, I don't remember precisely but it might me who added or
changed version of Depends: tetex-base (>= 2.0)
Regards, 2003-10-25(Sat)
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Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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