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

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 05:59:57PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> The PDF/PS/DVI formats can be produced via dblatex, passivetex or fop
> (with docbook-xsl). The last one was in contrib for a long time and has
> been moved to Suggests for this reason [1]. The second is buggy. dblatex
> was the only working one and I expect, that users of xmlto want to have
> PDF/PS/DVI support in a common installation.

> > 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.

> NACK. You can ignore Recommends if you know what you are doing.
> Everybody else expects a full working xmlto.

I don't know who these people are who "expect" xmlto to do things that
require dblatex, but I'm not one of them.

Then again, I don't know why xmlto was installed here in the first place, so
I've purged it now. <shrug>

> Installation of the toolchains is not enforced and you have the choice
> to disable/ignore Recommends-installation. I therefor leave this as
> wontfix. I fail to see compelling reasons to downgrade the package
> relationship further (it is already a Recommends and not a Depends).

The reason to downgrade it is that pulling in all of texlive isn't a sane
default.

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