Bug#425062: latex: no such package

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

"Andrew T. Young" <aty@mintaka.sdsu.edu> wrote:

> "latex" exists in the package database, but it is not a
> real package and no package provides it.

Hm, I can reproduce that:

$ dpkg -l latex
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                     Version                  Description
+++-========================-========================-================================================================
un  latex                    <none>                   (no description available)

How can I find out which package causes this?  Maybe just something
which still Suggests or Recommends it?

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