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Re: This afternoon's work



On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 09:38:35AM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> On 28.03.06 Julian Gilbey (jdg@polya.uklinux.net) wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > While looking at the kpsewhich bug, I discovered that lintian and
> > linda produced several bugs.  I've fixed all of them except for the
> > following missing manpages:
> > 
> This is #344993. Please post an update into it.

Shall do.

> > Another thing related to texconfig: if neither whiptail nor dialog
> > are installed, then texconfig will break if an attempt is made to
> > run it in interactive mode. We could fix this either by changing
> > the Recommends to a Depends, or by inserting code into
> > texconfig-dialog to check for this and die with a warning in such a
> > case.
> > 
> Well, sounds similar to the texdoctk story. However there we needed
> perl-tk, which was rather huge in size and not that common. I'd
> suggest to Depend on dialog:

Similar but very different: texconfig is a core configuration utility
of the package; texdoctk is a useful optional tool provided by the
package.

> hille@kloetzer:~ $ apt-cache show dialog libncursesw5|grep Install
> Installed-Size: 824
> Installed-Size: 584
> 
> rather small. dialog still depends on debianutils, bus this has 
> 
> Essential: yes
> Priority: required
> 
> I suggest to open a bug regarding this.

I'll go ahead and make the change.

> > A further alternative is to build tcdialog, but that seems crazy.
> > 
> I don't know what this is, but it seems you've kicked it out in
> earlier times foe some reasons: #94457.

tcdialog is just dialog renamed.  That's why it would be crazy :)

   Julian



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