Bug#778917: texlive-latex-extra: missing dependency - textgreek.sty requires lgrenc.def (texlive-lang-greek)
Package: texlive-latex-extra
Version: 2016.20170123-5
Followup-For: Bug #778917
On 21 Feb 2015 21:01:04 +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> On 21.02.2015 20:18, carandraug wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> The Tex textgreek package is part of the texlive-latex-extra debian package.
>> This Tex package depends on lgrenc.def which in Debian, is part of the Debian
>> texlive-lang-greek package. This package should then be listed as a
>> dependency for texlive-latex-extra but it is not.
>
> Hmm. texlive-latex-extra has size of 33MB. texlive-lang-greek has a size
> of 88MB. Forcing users to download and install 88MB just for a def file
> having a size of 37KB won't make us friends.
> Norbert, could you discuss this w/ upstream. Maybe moving the
> "greek-fontenc" TeX package to an extra TeX Live package?
>
> Hilmar
This issue is still present on Debian Stretch. It was not a problem
on Wheezy because lgrenc.def was part of texlive-latex-base.
I understand trying to avoid the 88MB dependency but at the moment
that means that the textgreek package in texlive-latex-extra is
broken which I would arguee is worse.
Carnë
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64
(x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.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 2016.20170123-5
ii texlive-binaries 2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-2
ii texlive-latex-recommended 2016.20170123-5
ii texlive-pictures 2016.20170123-5
Versions of packages texlive-latex-extra recommends:
ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2016.20170123-5
ii texlive-generic-extra 2016.20170123-5
ii texlive-latex-extra-doc 2016.20170123-5
Versions of packages texlive-latex-extra suggests:
ii libfile-which-perl 1.21-1
ii libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl 0.6500-1
ii python-pygments 2.2.0+dfsg-1
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii dpkg 1.18.23
ii ucf 3.0036
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii debhelper 10.2.5
Versions of packages texlive-latex-extra is related to:
ii tex-common 6.06
ii texlive-binaries 2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-2
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