Bug#470118: tetex-base: Transitional package that should depend and/or recommend tex-foo.

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 09.03.08 Andrew Vaughan (ajv-lists@netspace.net.au) wrote:

Hi Andrew,

> Package: tetex-base
> Version: 2007-13
> Severity: serious
> 
> Hi
> 
> >From the description
> 
>  teTeX is no longer developed upstream, and has been replaced by
>  the TeX Live collection.  This is a transitional package to bring
>  former teTeX users a decent selection of TeX Live packages.  It
>  can be safely removed (unless some external packages still depend
>  on tetex-base).
> 
> However the package does not depend or recommend any packages, and
> so doesn't provide "a decent selection of TeX Live packages."
> 
Is this bug still relevant? tetex-base is now a transitional package
even in Debian stable and I guess we'll remove it after the next
release. I don't think it is worth to discuss the package
description of a package which will be removed.

H.
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