[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#419390: xmltex: Please drop dependency on tetex-base, and switch to texlive

[Frank Küster]

Package: xmltex
Version: 1.9-11.1
Severity: serious

Ralf Treinen <treinen at free.fr> wrote: to #336666

> xmltex (= 1.9-11.1): FAILED
> The following constraints cannot be satisfied:
>   xmltex (= 1.9-11.1) depends on tetex-extra {tetex-extra (= 2007-2)}
>   xmltex (= 1.9-11.1) depends on tetex-base {tetex-base (= 3.0.dfsg.3-5)}
>   tetex-extra (= 2007-2) depends on texlive-lang-latin {texlive-lang-latin (= 2007-2)}
>   tetex-base (= 3.0.dfsg.3-5) conflicts with texlive-common (= 2007-2)
>   texlive-lang-latin (= 2007-2) depends on texlive-common (>= 2007) {texlive-common (= 2007-2)}

This could have been avoided if xmltex did not depend on tetex-base, a
package which provides no functionality (or at least hardly any
functionality for anything that exists/existed in Debian, except
tetex-bin). 

> Please move to texlive now that tetex has been removed. -Ralf.

That's the clean way to solve it; the fast way would be to just drop the
dependency on tetex-base (and lower the severity of this bug to
important; tetex-bin is meant as a transitional package for users, not
as a dependency package).

Regards, Frank



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Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
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