Bug#223728: tetex-bin needn't depend on xlibs
On 12.12.03 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:
> "Michael K. Edwards" <mkedebian@sane.net> schrieb:
Hi all,
> > 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,
>
Sure, it has. There are at least 4-5 wishlist bugs sitting in the
DBTS some of them for more than 2 years.
> Yes, it has. The answer was "not for woody", but unfortunately
> since then nobody worked on it. I cannot judge whether we are again
> too near to a freeze. But at least we have a working patch now.
>
IMHO we should start working on this ASAP. If it won't go into
testing until freeze due to RC-bugs we're out of luck but at least
we've closed that stuff in unstable.
As far as I understood the last messages from the d-i team we have
still a few weeks and the RC-bug count didn't drop that rapidly
either.
> If we do discuss issues like this, we should also take into account
> that also the destinction between tetex-base and tetex-extra is
> problematic (see #190721).
>
My proposal at this time didn't go so far as Michaels one. If his
patches work we can close #190721 too, IMHO.
> And there are even some problems with splitting off tetex-doc and
> tetex-src (no bug reports so far).
>
-v please
H., hoping teTeX > 2.0.2 comes out before sarge
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