[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#531405: xmlto: please don't recommend dblatex

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Mon Jun 1 10:14:18 UTC 2009


Package: xmlto
Version: 0.0.21-5

Hi Daniel,

When preparing to do a dist-upgrade, I found that something on my system was
trying to pull in the entire texlive suite.  This something turned out to be
xmlto, which has a new Recommends: on dblatex.

Policy says about Recommends that:

    The `Recommends' field should list packages that would be found
    together with this one in all but unusual installations.

I don't think it's at all unusual to want to use xmlto without having to
pull in all of texlive, so I think this package relationship should be
demoted to a Suggests.

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