Bug#539798: texlive: please suggest -doc packages

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

tags 539798 wontfix
thanks

Martin Godisch <martin@godisch.de> wrote:

> Please make the dependency of texlive-* on their according texlive-*-doc
> packages "suggests" instead of "recommends".

No, as already discussed multiple times on the Debian TeX list. I don't
recall the bug numbers, probably scattered over half a dozen binary
packages. 

Reasons:

- Licensing often requires to ship docs and runtime files together,
  Recommends is already a compromise which we adopted after installing
  Recommends became standard

- We actually do want our users to have the docs installed on usual
  installations, so we really want Recommends.  Otherwise, people will
  use randomly found documentation found via $search_engine, and then
  come complaining that the package doesn't work "as advertized".

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg