Bug#265590: tetex-base should suggest tetex-doc, not recommend

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 13.08.04 Jonas Smedegaard (dr@jones.dk) wrote:

Hi,

> Package recommendations are for stuff that doesn't actually break
> the functionality of the package, but really ought to be included
> (and should be pulled in automatically by package management tools
> if available).
> 
> Package suggestions are "nice enhancements" to the package.
> 
Understood.

> tetex-doc seems from the description to be in the latter category
> (as is the case with most -doc packages).
> 
The texmf-tree is delivered from upstream as one tar ball. It
includes everything excluding the sources of the texmf tree. So the
doc is in reality a part of the texmf tree. We put it into an extra
package cause (e.g.) an autobilder don't need texmf doc.
There is at least one member of de.comp.text.tex, who got over and
over questions from Debian users, just cause they didn't read the
docs. Therefore we decided to make tetex-doc do be Recommend instead
of Suggest.

> So please either lower the dependency of tetex-base on tetex-doc
> from recommends to suggests, or enhance the long description of
> tetex-doc to describe its relation with tetex-base so tight.
> 
I guess, we'll do the latter.

Regards,
  Hilmar 
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