Bug#392123: tetex-base: ship /usr/share/texmf-tetex/missing-source/ in separate package

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> wrote:

> Package: tetex-base
> Version: 3.0-21
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> # apt-get --download-only install tetex-base
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Recommended packages:
>   tetex-doc
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   tetex-base
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/29.0MB of archives.
> After unpacking 14.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Download complete and in download only mode
>
> 14.5MB is a lot of additional disk space, especially for live-cds
> where LaTeX is included. :(
>
> # dpkg -x ~deb/tetex-base_3.0.dfsg.1-1_all.deb .
> # du -sh ./usr/share/texmf-tetex/missing-source/
> 14M     ./usr/share/texmf-tetex/missing-source/
>
> Can /usr/share/texmf-tetex/missing-source/ please be shipped in an
> additional package?

Sorry, it's not even supposed to be shipped in the binary package at
all.  Damn. Another upload.

Regards, Frank

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