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

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hi Martin,

last week I asked you a question about your bugreport, but I've not
received an answer so far:

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

> 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?

It would be nice if you could answer this.  Thank you in advance,

Regards, Frank

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