Bug#278901: tetex-base is too big and changes too often - split?
Package: tetex-base
Version: 2.0.2b-6
Severity: minor
Tetex-base is a 14 MB package that changes weekly.
It's an annoyance to download, and (on my system) it accounts
for about 20% of the time I spend on apt-get dist-upgrade.
I notice that many of the bugs are associated with the .sty
files and the tex/latex parts of the package, but that most
of the size is related to the font definitions.
Perhaps it'd be better to split it into
tetex-base-fonts and tetex-base-tex ?
(Or perhaps there is a better split...)
-- Package-specific info:
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If you report an error when running one of the TeX-related binaries
(latex, pdftex, metafont,...), or if the bug is related to bad or wrong
output, please include a MINIMAL example input file that produces the
error in your report. Don't forget to also include minimal examples of
other files that are needed, e.g. bibtex databases. Often it also helps
to include the logfile. Please, never send included pictures!
If your example file isn't short or produces more than one page of
output (except when multiple pages are needed to show the problem),
you can probably minimize it further. Instructions on how to do that
can be found at
http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini-en.html (english)
or
http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini.html (german)
##################################
minimal input file
##################################
other files
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List of ls-R files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240 Oct 4 23:07 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 91 Oct 4 23:07 /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 864 Oct 30 06:39 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Oct 4 23:05 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.30.8 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.23 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii texinfo 4.7-2.2 Documentation system for on-line i
ii ucf 1.09 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.30.8 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.10.23 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.2-2 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libkpathsea3 2.0.2-22 path search library for teTeX (run
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-0.4 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-8 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libt1-5 5.0.2-3 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libwww0 5.4.0-9 The W3C WWW library
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii mime-support 3.28-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.4-2.3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.1.2-1 The GNU sed stream editor
ii ucf 1.09 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-1 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on:
ii dpkg 1.10.23 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii gsfonts 8.14+v8.11-0.1 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
ii tetex-bin 2.0.2-22 The teTeX binary files
ii ucf 1.09 Update Configuration File: preserv
-- debconf information:
tetex-base/olddat: true
tetex-base/fmtutil-failed:
tetex-bin/upd_map: true
* tetex-bin/cnf_name:
tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
tetex-bin/fmtutil-failed:
tetex-bin/userperm: false
* tetex-bin/texmf: true
tetex-bin/updmap-failed:
* tetex-bin/hyphen: ngerman[=naustrian-neue_Rechtschreibung], french[=patois]
tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
tetex-base/oldcfg: true
* tetex-base/oldupdm: true
tetex-base/updmap-failed:
* tetex-bin/use_debconf: true
* tetex-bin/groupname: users
tetex-bin/groupperm: true
* tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true
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