Bug#433121: xmltex recommends passivetex but passivetex not included in etch

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hi Martin,

thanks for the report.

"Martin Guy" <martinwguy@yahoo.it> wrote:

> Package: xmltex
> Version: 1.9-11.1
>
> xmltex is needed for "pdfxmltex" to work
> and recommends (and needs for pdfxmltex to work) passivetex.
> But passivetex has not been included in etch.

The current situation is a bug for sure, but I'm not sure what the
solution is.  I would have said that we just drop the recommends.

But now you say that pdfxmltex needs passivetex for it to work.
Frankly, I must admit that I never used xmltex or pdfxmltex, and I don't
know how to check whether it works.  Can you provide an example, or tell
me how to produce an error with pdfxmltex?

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