Re: (post-Etch) Turning tetex-* packages into dummy dependency metapackages

To: "Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>
Cc: debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: (post-Etch) Turning tetex-* packages into dummy dependency metapackages
From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:26:18 +0100
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Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

>> - dvipdfm (nothing else provides this, and alml depends upon it; it
>>            should be provided [I guess] by texlive-base-bin, which
>>            includes /usr/bin/dvipdfm)
>
> No, rather tetex-bin should stop providing dvipdfm, and any package
> depending on it should choose proper dependencies.  

alml bug: #400868

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

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