Bug#200264: tetex-bin upgrade fails: conflict with texdoctk

[Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:09:54PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> On 07.07.03 Ross Boylan (RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org) wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > If texdoctk is folded into tetex-bin, the latter probably needs
> > some additional dependencies, such as those for texdoctk, right?
> > 
> Yes, they should. Let me see, what do we need additionally:
> perl-tk, mime-support. postscript-viewer and pdf-viewer are only in
> Suggests. The latter 2 are needed by texdoc (which is already in
> tetex-bin). Perhaps we should raise it up to Recommends...
> Missing is in every case w3m | www-browser and
> xterm | x-terminal-emulator. Dunno if we need it in Depends or if
> Suggests is sufficient.

For reference, here's the current info for texdoctk on my system:
Package: texdoctk
Priority: optional
Section: tex
Installed-Size: 200
Maintainer: C.M. Connelly <cmc@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.5.1-4
Depends: tetex-bin, tetex-doc (>= 1.0), tetex-doc (<< 1.0.3), perl-tk (>= 1:800.015), gv | postscript-viewer, gv | pdf-viewer,  w3m | www-browser, xterm | x-terminal-emulator, mime-support
Recommends: html2ps, a2ps, gs
Suggests: lpr



> 
> > Or will they get picked up automatically?
> > 
> As long as they are not mentioned in Depends, Recommends, Suggest no,
> of course not.

Well, there are some macros there, and I'm not sure how they expand.

> 
> H.