Re: [debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Bug#402118: closed by Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> (Bug#402118: fixed in debiandoc-sgml 1.1.102)
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 02:44:07PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> reopen 402118
> found 402118 1.1.102
> thanks
> [resending this since my first mail seems to have gotten lost in my
> screwed mail setup]
Thanks for your interest on this.
> owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) wrote:
>
> > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> > #402118: debiandoc-sgml: Must specifiy explicit TeXLive dependencies,
> [...]
> > * Update Recommends: to use texlive-full. (closes: #402118)
>
> No, PLEASE not this way! A package should never Depend or Recommend
> texlive-full. It excessively huge. And a LaTeX document generated by
> debiandoc-sgml (or any other code generator) will always only need a
> defined subset of texlive-packages. texlive-full brings in lots of
> stuff which is completely useless for debiandoc-sgml (all the
> non-LaTeX-stuff, texlive-fonts-extra, texlive-doc-*).
I see.
> Sorry that I cannot help you in more detail, being just about to leave
> for vacation. But I guess people on debian-tex-maint will help you, and
> http://pkg-tetex.alioth.debian.org/mapping-texlive.html might also be
> useful.
To be honest, it is a bit too much for the maintainer of DOC packages to
keep updating build dependency changes.
Can you tex people to provide something like: tex-build-essential (or
texlive-build-full) which provides all required fonts and language
specific features. Then everyone can have easytime.
As far as immediate impact, it should be OK since this is Architecture:
all and unlikely to be auto-build.
Osamu
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