Bug#808776: texlive-pictures: please drop prerex from Recommends to Suggests

[Michael Terry <mterry@ubuntu.com>]

Package: texlive-base
Version: 2015.20151116-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu xenial ubuntu-patch

Dear Maintainer,

Currently, texlive-pictures Recommends prerex.  Which itself Recommends
vprerex.  When Recommends are installed by default (as they are in Ubuntu),
that's a heavyweight Recommend for something that doesn't seem to fit the
definition of a Recommend ("packages that would be found together with this
one in all but unusual installations").

In Ubuntu, the attached patch to drop prerex to a Suggests is our only delta
with texlive-base.  I'd love to get back in sync.  And I think this change
makes sense for Debian too.

Thanks for considering the patch.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers xenial-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'xenial-updates'), (500, 'xenial-security'), (500, 'xenial')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-2-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  dpkg  1.18.3ubuntu1
ii  ucf   3.0031

Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii  debhelper  9.20151126ubuntu1

Versions of packages texlive-base is related to:
ii  tex-common        6.04
ii  texlive-binaries  2015.20150524.37493-7build4

diff -Nru texlive-base-2015.20151116/debian/control texlive-base-2015.20151116/debian/control
--- texlive-base-2015.20151116/debian/control	2015-11-16 07:32:45.000000000 -0500
+++ texlive-base-2015.20151116/debian/control	2015-12-22 13:52:40.000000000 -0500
@@ -385,9 +385,9 @@
 Architecture: all
 Multi-Arch: foreign
 Depends: texlive-base (>= 2015), texlive-latex-recommended (>= 2015), texlive-base (>= 2015), ${misc:Depends}, texlive-binaries (>= 2015.20150524), python
-Recommends: texlive-pictures-doc, tk, prerex, ruby | ruby-interpreter
+Recommends: texlive-pictures-doc, tk, ruby | ruby-interpreter
 Provides: pgf
-Suggests: texlive-latex-extra, libtcltk-ruby, dot2tex
+Suggests: texlive-latex-extra, libtcltk-ruby, dot2tex, prerex
 Breaks: texlive-music (<< 2015.20150625), texlive-base (<< 2015)
 Description: TeX Live: Graphics, pictures, diagrams
  Including TikZ, pict, etc., but MetaPost and PStricks are separate.