Bug#891968: texlive-base should depend on xzdec as it is needed to initialise tlmgr

[Johannes Ranke <jranke@uni-bremen.de>]

Package: texlive-base
Version: 2016.20170123-5
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

On a fresh Debian stretch installation, when trying to process a tex
document tlmgr could not be initialized because xzdec was not installed:

....
/usr/bin/tlmgr: Initialization failed (in setup_unix_one):
/usr/bin/tlmgr: could not find a usable xzdec.
/usr/bin/tlmgr: Please install xzdec and try again.
tlmgr: Couldn't set up the necessary programs.
Installation of packages is not supported.
Please report to texlive@tug.org.
tlmgr: Continuing anyway ...
Use of uninitialized value $r in split at /usr/bin/tlmgr line 3899.
tlmgr: Cannot find main repository, you have to tag one as main!
...

After installing the xzdec package the compile succeeded.

I checked the texlive-base package in unstable (2017.20180225-1) and
it also does not depend on xzdec. As the tlmgr binary is in
texlive-base, I think texlive-base should depend on xzdec.

Cheers,

Johannes


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 List of ls-R files

-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 1354 Feb 20 02:38 /home/username/texmf/ls-R
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1200 Feb 20 02:43 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 username staff 80 Mar  3 11:46 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jan 17  2017 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Mar  4  2017 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Mar  4  2017 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
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 Config files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Feb 20 02:43 /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Mar  4  2017 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf -> /var/lib/texmf/fmtutil.cnf-DEBIAN
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 154 Mar  3 11:46 /home/username/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2763 Feb 20 02:43 /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 17  2017 mktex.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Feb 20 02:43 texmf.cnf
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 md5sums of texmf.d
ca40c66f144b4bafc3e59a2dd32ecb9c  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/00debian.cnf

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (15, 'proposed-updates'), (15, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.61
ii  libpaper-utils         1.1.24+nmu5
ii  tex-common             6.06
ii  texlive-binaries       2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-2
ii  ucf                    3.0036
ii  xdg-utils              1.1.1-1

Versions of packages texlive-base recommends:
pn  lmodern  <none>

Versions of packages texlive-base suggests:
ii  ghostscript [postscript-viewer]  9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u1
ii  okular [postscript-viewer]       4:16.08.2-1+b1
pn  perl-tk                          <none>
ii  xpdf [pdf-viewer]                3.04-4

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  dpkg  1.18.24
ii  ucf   3.0036

Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii  debhelper  10.2.5

Versions of packages texlive-base is related to:
ii  tex-common        6.06
ii  texlive-binaries  2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-2

-- debconf information:
  texlive-base/texconfig_ignorant:
  texlive-base/binary_chooser: pdftex, dvips, dvipdfmx, xdvi