Bug#688845: texlive-fonts-extra: Please demote all additional Depends to Recommends
Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com> writes:
> *But I would like to suggest to split t-f-e into
> two parts, one without external dependencies and one with them.*
[...]
> I think the t-f-e package is somehow special in this regard, since its
> dependencies are really exhaustive. I don't see any other texlive
> package with that many dependencies on external (i.e. not texlive-*)
> packages.
Okay, this is a valid argument to package t-f-e differently and still
keep the rest. However, this is only going to happen if you (which, 98%
sure, means YOU, Fabian), start the coding and implement the splitting
in the current setup with tpm2source-bin.pl, tpm2deb-bin.pl and
tpm2deb.cfg. Preferrably without introducing new directives in the
tpm2deb.cfg-syntax.
Regards, Frank
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