Re: Bug#400597: Please also depend on texlive as an alternative to tetex
Hi all!
On Fre, 01 Dez 2006, uphr@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
> hi Norbert - I'm CC'ing you because this is about the "alternative
> dependency on tetex and texlive" issue.
No problem, only that I am in Vietnam and not very good connected, and
no chance to do any devel work. Better is to ALWAYS!!! Cc the right
list:
debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org
>
> Zitat von Roberto Suarez Soto <turgon@debian.org>:
> >On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:17:11PM +0100, uphr@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
> >
> >>I guess cdcover can be used with the texlive TeX distribution as well
> >>as with TeTeX. As texlive is in Debian (and TeTeX is discontinued),
> >>please allow texlive as an alternative dependency for cdcover. The
> >>latex-ucs package also does this, for example.
> >
> > Ok, fine. The only problem is that I don't know anything about
> >Texlive, and I don't know if there is possible to substitute each tetex-*
> >package for the equivalent in texlive. I.e., could this "Depends" line be
> >the
> >right one?
> >
> > Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, tetex-bin | texlive-bin, tetex-base |
> > texlive-base, tetex-extra | texlive-extra
>
> Two of the texlive packages you list there do not exist, texlive-bin
> and texlive-extra. This would be texlive-base-bin for tetex-bin, but I
> think for tetex-extra there is no direct equivalent texlive package.
>
> I googled for the issue because contrary to my first impression the
> solution isn't as straightforward as for latex-ucs, which only depends
> on one tetex package. Norbert, the current texlive maintainer, has a
> page on these issues: http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html. He
> recommends
> tetex-base | texlive-latex-recommended, tetex-bin | texlive-base
> for base and bin, but I don't know about extra.
>
> I'm not at my Debian system currently, so I cannot investigate right
> now what part of tetex-extra cdcover needs. I'll find out, then I can
> look up in which texlive package it is contained, or if I don't manage,
> I'll ask you, Norbert.
It all depends on WHICH LaTeX packages you use. Best is to:
- check the source code of cdcover for used LaTeX/TeX packages and fonts
- check packages.debian.org for which texlive-* package provides these
sty files
- adjust the depends
Normally I could do this for you as it does not seem to be very
difficult for cdcover, but I have no devel machine available!!
On the debian-tex list there was a thread reently about a script doing
some of this magic ... One of the debian-tex-maint regulars can yuou
point the OP to the respective script?
> dependencies in your repo at http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/updpkg/,
> but you didn't file bugs against some of them (e.g. plywood). Do you
> intend to do this, so that the updated versions get into Debian proper?
Hmm, I thought I did it for all the packages I updated, or someone else
did it for me. If I forgot one, PLEASE do it yourself, it was an
oversight on my side!
Best wishes
Norbert
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