Bug#424658: thumbpdf script missing?

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

bdale@gag.com (Bdale Garbee) wrote:

> Package: texlive-latex-recommended
> Version: 2007-5
>
> Using debiandoc2latexpdf in the debian-history package build process is 
> generating warnings about not being able to generate thumbnails.  Turning up
> the verbosity, what I see is:
>
> /usr/bin/debiandoc2latexpdf: line 253: thumbpdf: command not found
> debiandoc2latexpdf: ERROR: thumbnail images could not be generated properly
>
> It appears to me that the package texlive-latex-recommended, which I have
> installed, contains the .tex and .sty files for thumbpdf, but I can't find 
> the perl script anywhere.  
>
> Is the thumbpdf script just missing, or is there some other package I need 
> to install?

It's in texlive-extra-utils.  But I admit that this sounds like a
suboptimal choice given that the style files are in
tl-latex-recommended.  

What do others think, should we ask upstream to move it to
collection-basebin?  I'm not sure about the dependencies upstream
provides for our texlive-bin.

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