Bug#462610: texlive-xetex: Missing `xelatex.fmt' file
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> On 27.01.08 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
>> Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>> >> 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?
Yes, that's the right place. Thank you, Frank
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Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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