Re: Please update your package to use libkpathsea4

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> wrote:

> Hi Frank!
>
> From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
> Subject: Please update your package to use libkpathsea4
> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:29:20 +0100
>
>> one or several of your packages (see the list below) depends on
>> libkpathsea3.  
>
> FYI. It seems you traced too deep along recursive 
> dependency.  For example,
>
>> Atsuhito KOHDA <kohda@debian.org>
>>         dvi2ps-fontdesc-morisawa5
>>         vfdata-morisawa5
>
> These do not directly depend on libkpathsea but depend
> on pTeX package which depends on libkpathsea.

Ups, you are right.  I misinterpreted the output of apt-rdepends.  Or in
other words, apt-rdepends is completely useless for that task.  Affected
are only

$ grep-dctrl -FDepends libkpathsea3 -n -sPackage /var/lib/apt/lists/localhost\:9999_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages 
catdvi
cjk-latex
dvi2dvi
dvi2ps
dvifb
dvilx
dvipng
dvisvga
evince
jbibtex-bin
jmpost
jtex-bin
lcdf-typetools
libkpathsea-dev
libkpathsea-perl
multex-bin
ptex-bin
python-pyx
tex4ht
tkdvi
vflib3
vflib3-bin
xdvik-ja

(nothing in contrib or non-free)

Do we need an apology mail for the false positives?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)