[debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Re: Bug#403200: maint-guide: FTBFS: --> latex-cjk-*

[Frank Küster]

Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org> wrote:

> By the way, can latex-cjk-all mainatiner make this package to install
> all required fonts to get decent looking pages by "depends"?  So all
> documentation packages can forget about fine details of latex.

I'm not sure this is a good idea.  If you write a document yourself,
using latex-cjk, you will often use the fonts that are provided in
Debian - but sometimes you might want to use different ones.  In other
words, it makes perfect sense to use latex-cjk without these font
packages installed, and a Depends would be to strict a dependency.

However, since debiandoc-sgml only Recommends the TeX toolchain, anyway,
it could also Recommend the fonts needed for different languages,
indicating to maintainers what they should try.

> So when fixing this bug, please consider this to fix/prevents all FTBFS
> for doc packages when latex infrastructure evolves.  

Err, FTBFS bugs can be prevented by never uploading a package that
hasn't been built in a clean environment.  AFAIK the old cjk-latex
package didn't depend on *japanese-wadalab*, either (at least in sarge
it doesn't).

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)