Re: [debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Bug#402118: closed by Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> (Bug#402118: fixed in debiandoc-sgml 1.1.102)

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

clone 402118 -1
reassign -1 texlive
retitle -1 please provide a texlive-build-essential package or similar help for maintainers
thanks

Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> 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-*).
[...]
> 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.

I'm not sure that we want to take this path, but the wish should be
documented in the BTS, and properly discussed.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)