Bug#190721: splitting of texdoctk is hosed

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 02.05.03 Atsuhito Kohda (kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp) wrote:
> From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
> Subject: Bug#190721: splitting of texdoctk is hosed
> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 00:08:32 +0200

Hi,

> > Debian woody. Perhaps we should again split off texdoctk (and the
> > config-files) to an extra-package. Then we should put it as
> > Recommend or Suggest. Don't know about (t|p)xfonts.
> 
> Please note that texdoctk itself is in tetex-bin and supporting
> files are in tetex-extra, and tetex-bin and tetex-extra are built
> from different teTeX sources (tetex-bin from tetex-src-*.tar.gz and
> tetex-extra from tetex-texmf-*.tar.gz)
> 
Sorry, didn't notice that. I don't have tetex-2.0 installed so seeing
these things are a little bit more hard to do.

> so if we split off texdoctk then we need texdoctk-bin and
> texdoctk-conffiles(?)
> 
Well, why not? And then modify texdoctk, that it checks for its
configfiles and spits out an error-message, if that package is
missing. Well, the latter thing we can do already now and point to
tetex-extra. Perhaps it would be enough to split off the config-files
for texdoctk from tetex-extra to an extra package and then patch
texdoctk. Should texdoctk-conffiles have an Depend on tetex-doc then?
  I see that bug anywhere between grave (a program doesn't work at
all after installing it) and wishlist (it works after installing
another package).

H. 
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