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Bug#223728: marked as done (tetex-bin needn't depend on xlibs)

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regarding tetex-bin needn't depend on xlibs
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Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-5.1
Tags: patch

The attached patch splits off separate xdvi, texdoctk, and
metafont-xterm-support packages from tetex-bin, leaving tetex-bin free of
xfree86 dependencies.  I am sure that this has been debated before, but I
am of the opinion that tetex-bin ought not to pull in xlibs or perl-tk,
both for sysadmin reasons (ability to run TeX on a machine where X11 is
not desired) and to allow xfree86 to be built without pulling old xlibs
into the build chroot.  The patch adds no new lintian/linda issues.  A
corresponding bug/patch is being filed against tetex-base to split off the
texdoctk-data package referenced by texdoctk.

There is one infelicity in this patch; it duplicates the mf manpage in
order to work around dh_compress's current failure to "compress" a symlink
foo.1 -> bar.1 to foo.1.gz -> bar.1.gz if bar.1 is not in the same
package.  I opted for a dumb but lintian/linda-clean approach (ship a copy
of the mf manpage in metafont-xterm-support as mfw.1.gz).  There is
probably a "standard" way of dealing with this that I don't know about.

Thanks for considering this, and I apologize if I am beating a dead horse.

- Michael

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On 11.12.03 Michael K. Edwards (mkedebian@sane.net) wrote:

Hi Michael,

> The attached patch splits off separate xdvi, texdoctk, and
> metafont-xterm-support packages from tetex-bin, leaving tetex-bin
> free of xfree86 dependencies.
> 
Thanks for the patch and your work!

teTeX i obsolete for a while now, I'm closing your bug now. If you
think the same should be implemented for TeX Live, please file a new
bug.

Thanks again,
  Hilmar
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