Bug#620979: texlive-xetex should depend on poppler-data to make the manual displayable

[Frank Küster]

Johannes Niediek <jniediek-rb at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> Package: texlive-xetex
> Version: 2009-11
> Severity: minor
>
>
> The manual file /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.pdf needs
> files from the package poppler-data to be present in order to be
> displayed correctly in viewers such as evince or okular. 

Hm, that is right.

> Hence creating
> a package dependcy should be considered.

This, however, I doubt.  Running pdffonts on the file says that all
fonts are embedded.  Running pdffonts with poppler-data removed (with
--force-depends, of course, since pdffonts' package does depend on it)
gives the error message:

Error: Missing language pack for 'Adobe-Japan1' mapping

many times.  Adobe reader is able to display the file without problems,
even without poppler-data installed.


Therefore it seems to me that rather the viewers need a dependency on
poppler-data, as xpdf itself already has.  

Regards, Frank

-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg
Debian Developer (TeXLive)