Bug#423013: tetex-extra: ..over 300MB of uneccessary texlive-lang-* dependencies, require one of them and suggest the rest.

To: Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>
Cc: 423013@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#423013: tetex-extra: ..over 300MB of uneccessary texlive-lang-* dependencies, require one of them and suggest the rest.
From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 16:14:54 +0200
Message-id: <87zm4ehyn5.fsf@riesling.zuerich.kuesterei.ch>
Reply-to: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>, 423013@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <20070509125515.17942.88708.reportbug@a45.fmb.no> (Arnt Karlsen's message of "Wed\, 09 May 2007 14\:55\:15 +0200")
References: <20070509125515.17942.88708.reportbug@a45.fmb.no>

reassign 423013 prosper
retitle 423013 Please drop tetex dependencies
found 423013 1.00.4+cvs.2007.05.01-1
thanks

Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net> wrote:

> Package: tetex-extra
> Version: ..the sid install candidates.
> Severity: normal
>
>
> ...on choosing prosper, I find it depends on tetex-extra.  So far so
> good.  

No, that is the bug.  Please drop the tetex dependencies.  

If you want to keep them to allow easier etch backporting, make the
texlive ones the first option.  Although I doubt anyone still using
teTeX in etch will need the latest prosper, since texlive in etch is
newer.

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

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