Bug#425062: latex: no such package

[Jeroen Schot <schot@A-Eskwadraat.nl>]

On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:37:27PM +0200, Frank KKKster wrote:
> "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?

On my etch system I used `apt-cache showpkg latex` which returned:
Package: latex
Versions: 

Reverse Depends: 
  tetex-extra,latex
  tetex-base,latex
  asymptote,latex
Dependencies: 
Provides: 
Reverse Provides:

(`apt-cache rdepends latex` didn't show anything)

And indeed asymptote lists latex as a dependency:
..., tetex-bin | texlive-latex-base | latex, ...

Should this bug be reassigned against the asymptote package?

Regards,
-- 
Jeroen Schot