Package: tetex-bin Version: 2.0.2-5.1 Tags: patch The attached patch splits off separate xdvi, texdoctk, and metafont-xterm-support packages from tetex-bin, leaving tetex-bin free of xfree86 dependencies. I am sure that this has been debated before, but I am of the opinion that tetex-bin ought not to pull in xlibs or perl-tk, both for sysadmin reasons (ability to run TeX on a machine where X11 is not desired) and to allow xfree86 to be built without pulling old xlibs into the build chroot. The patch adds no new lintian/linda issues. A corresponding bug/patch is being filed against tetex-base to split off the texdoctk-data package referenced by texdoctk. There is one infelicity in this patch; it duplicates the mf manpage in order to work around dh_compress's current failure to "compress" a symlink foo.1 -> bar.1 to foo.1.gz -> bar.1.gz if bar.1 is not in the same package. I opted for a dumb but lintian/linda-clean approach (ship a copy of the mf manpage in metafont-xterm-support as mfw.1.gz). There is probably a "standard" way of dealing with this that I don't know about. Thanks for considering this, and I apologize if I am beating a dead horse. - Michael
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