Bug#411537: texlive-extra-utils: Installs /usr/bin/dvidvi, which is also in package dvidvi

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> wrote:

>>> Which makes me realise that dvidvi depends on tetex to the
>>> exclusion of texlive... Pfff... I don't even know why it depends on
>>> tetex-bin, to be honest.
>
>> That is probably because it needs to access fonts, and therefore
>> needs mktexpk and friends.
>
> 1) dvidvi does not link to any library (other than libc, of course)

Ah, I was confused.  Of course, since the output of dvi is just dvi, it
doesn't need fonts, as all the other dvi-to-something programs do.

> I thus conclude that dvidvi cannot execute any executable from
> tetex-bin, nor access any data from dependencies of tetex-bin
> (e.g. tetex-base) and hence the package has no reason to depend on
> them.
>
> I uploaded to unstable stripping the dependency.

Fine.  Should I include an unfreeze request with our request to let the
fixed texlive in?

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