Bug#462610: texlive-xetex: Missing `xelatex.fmt' file

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 27.01.08 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> wrote:

Hi all,

(Resend: it did go to the BTS, but not to the list).

> >> Then user calls xelatex, mktexfmt tries but sees that there is
> >> no latex.ini, so does nothing, and xetex complains that it
> >> cannot find xelatex.fmt.
> > 
> > So, texlive-xetex should depend on texlive-latex-base as well? 
> 
> No, Depends is to strict, it should be recommends.
> 
I don't understand much about packaging TL for Debian. In
texlive-new/all/debian/tpm2deb.cfg I still see the entry

depends;texlive-xetex;texlive-latex-base

(line 478). Is this the right place to fix? Should I do it?

Thanks,
  Hilmar
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