Bug#382870: texlive-latex-recommended: beamer.cls depends on pgfcore.sty which is not available

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
>> > $ grep pgf CHANGES.packaging
>> >   * upgrade pgf in texlive-pictures to 1.01 for compatibility fixes
>> >
>> Does that mean that 1.00 is generally buggy in Debian, or just that 1.00
>> does not work properly with special components in TeXlive?
>
> 1.00 is buggy by itself:
> 2005-11-16 Till Tantau <tantau@users.sourceforge.net>
>
>         Version 1.01:
>
>         - Added textures support.
>         - Added text opacity option.
>         - Fixed bug in pgfbasesnakes.code.tex causing lot's of
>           'missing = in nullfont' message in log file.
>         - Fixed bug that made plain tex mode unusable.
>         - Fixed missing pgfsys-vtex.def in FILES.
>         - Fixed wrong box placements in compatibility mode.
>         - Fixed SVG support to create legal xml.
>         - Moved documentation to doc/generic/pgf.
>
> Especially the 
> 	- Fixed wrong box placements in compatibility mode.
> hits practically *all* documents using the old 0.65 commands. And as I
> have quite some of them which I don't want/can convert ...

So it is important that pgf be updated.  However, in my opinion the
correct solution would be to file an important (or even serious?) bug on
pgf.  And drop it from texlive.  Your personal documents can still be
fixed by installing pgf_1.01 in TEXMFLOCAL.

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