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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: texlive-latex-base has unnecessary dpkg dependency
- From: Faheem Mitha <faheem@faheem.info>
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 21:20:31 +0530
- Message-id: <20140315155031.19522.82224.reportbug@orwell.homelinux.org>
Package: texlive-latex-base
Version: 2012.20120611-5
Severity: normal
It was pointed out to me that texlive-latex-base has the following
unnecessary dependency.
dpkg (>= 1.14.18),
But the version in squeeze is more recent than this.
$ apt-cache policy dpkg
dpkg:
Installed: 1.16.12
Candidate: 1.16.12
Version table:
1.17.6 0
50 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
50 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
*** 1.16.12 0
500 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.15.8.13 0
500 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ squeeze/main amd64 Packages
I suggest removing this dependency.
Regards, Faheem Mitha
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minimal input file
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other files
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List of ls-R files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1373 Jan 30 04:34 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jun 15 2013 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Oct 3 2012 /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEMAIN
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 80 Jan 10 02:13 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Oct 3 2012 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Oct 3 2012 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Oct 3 2012 /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEMAIN
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Config files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Jan 6 17:34 /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4745 Jan 30 04:34 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Oct 3 2012 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg -> /var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-DEBIAN
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3245 Jan 30 04:34 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
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Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Jan 10 2013 mktex.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Jan 6 17:34 texmf.cnf
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md5sums of texmf.d
ca40c66f144b4bafc3e59a2dd32ecb9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/00debian.cnf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (50, 'unstable'), (50, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages texlive-latex-base depends on:
ii dpkg 1.16.12
ii tex-common 4.04
ii texlive-base 2012.20120611-5
ii texlive-binaries 2012.20120628-4
ii texlive-common 2012.20120611-5
Versions of packages texlive-latex-base recommends:
ii texlive-latex-base-doc 2012.20120611-5
texlive-latex-base suggests no packages.
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.49
ii dpkg 1.16.12
ii ucf 3.0025+nmu3
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii debhelper 9.20120909
Versions of packages texlive-latex-base is related to:
ii tex-common 4.04
ii texlive-binaries 2012.20120628-4
-- debconf information:
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
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> Could you, in all the packages related to texlive, remove the -doc deps?
No.
Already answered many times. They are *recommends*, so if you want to
*not* have docs, just install without-recommends. Getting rid of
docs more easily would bring us in potential problems due to
licensing requirements to distribute the runf iles together with the docs.
End of the story, answered already many times.
Closing this bug.
Norbert
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