Bug#854170: texlive-latex-extra: please include python-latex-highlighting

["Francesco Poli (wintermute)" <invernomuto@paranoici.org>]

Package: texlive-latex-extra
Version: 2016.20170123-1
Severity: wishlist

Hello Debian TeX Maintainers!
Thanks for all the hard work on Debian TeX packages: it's really
appreciated!

Could you please include python-latex-highlighting [1] into Debian
package texlive-latex-extra? It is released under the terms of a
variant of the 3-clause BSD license [2].

[1] https://github.com/olivierverdier/python-latex-highlighting
[2] https://github.com/olivierverdier/python-latex-highlighting/blob/master/LICENSE.rst

The reason why I think it would be useful is that it seems to be
required by the LaTeX code produced by the doconce Debian package [3].

[3] https://packages.debian.org/sid/doconce

I am testing this lightweight markup language and I found out that even
a minimal DocOnce document, such as:

  $ cat mytestdoc.do.txt 
  TITLE: My first Doconce test document
  AUTHOR: Francesco Poli
  DATE: today

  ======= Hello =======

  Hello to every reader of a *DocOnce* document!

when translated into LaTeX code meant for pdflatex with the following
commands:

  $ doconce format pdflatex mytestdoc
  translate doconce text in mytestdoc.do.txt
  output in mytestdoc.p.tex
  $ ptex2tex -DMINTED mytestdoc
  running preprocessor on mytestdoc.p.tex...  defines: 'MINTED'  done
  done mytestdoc.p.tex -> mytestdoc.tex

produces a LaTeX source file that uses LaTeX package ptex2tex [4], which,
in its turn, uses LaTeX package pythonhighlight.

[4] /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ptex2tex/ptex2tex.sty from Debian
    package ptex2tex


I think that LaTeX package pythonhighlight should be included in Debian
package texlive-latex-extra (which is a dependency of Debian package
ptex2tex), since it may be useful in a more general context, rather
than only in conjunction with ptex2tex.

I hope this can be done.
Thanks for your time and your helpfulness!

Bye.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (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 texlive-latex-extra depends on:
ii  preview-latex-style        11.90-1
ii  tex-common                 6.06
ii  texlive-base               2016.20170123-1
ii  texlive-binaries           2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-1
ii  texlive-latex-recommended  2016.20170123-1
ii  texlive-pictures           2016.20170123-1

Versions of packages texlive-latex-extra recommends:
ii  texlive-fonts-recommended  2016.20170123-1
pn  texlive-generic-extra      <none>
ii  texlive-latex-extra-doc    2016.20170123-1

Versions of packages texlive-latex-extra suggests:
ii  libfile-which-perl              1.21-1
pn  libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl  <none>
ii  python-pygments                 2.2.0+dfsg-1

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  dpkg  1.18.18
ii  ucf   3.0036

Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii  debhelper  10.2.3

Versions of packages texlive-latex-extra is related to:
ii  tex-common        6.06
ii  texlive-binaries  2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-1

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