Package: tetex-base Version: 2.0.2-5.1 Tags: patch The attached patch splits off a separate texdoctk-data package from tetex-base, leaving tetex-base free of xfree86 dependencies. I am sure that this has been debated before, but I am of the opinion that tetex-base 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 and fixes a couple of minor ones (unnecessary debconf in preinst, error in a shell script installed as documentation). A corresponding bug/patch is being filed against tetex-bin to split off the texdoctk package referenced by texdoctk-data. Thanks for considering this, and I apologize if I am beating a dead horse. - Michael
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