Hi,

On Mittwoch, 4. September 2013, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Yes, and? Was the dist-upgrade disturbed?
> We are talking about normal systems, that is having telxive or texlive-full
> installed. Not pathological cases of only t-l-d installed.

wheezy has:

Package: texlive-lang
Binary: texlive-lang-african, texlive-lang-arabic, texlive-lang-armenian, 
texlive-lang-cjk, texlive-lang-croatian, texlive-lang-cyrillic, texlive-lang-
czechslovak, texlive-lang-danish, texlive-lang-dutch, texlive-lang-finnish, 
texlive-lang-french, texlive-lang-german, texlive-lang-greek, texlive-lang-
hebrew, texlive-lang-hungarian, texlive-lang-indic, texlive-lang-italian, 
texlive-lang-latin, texlive-lang-latvian, texlive-lang-lithuanian, texlive-
lang-mongolian, texlive-lang-norwegian, texlive-lang-other, texlive-lang-
polish, texlive-lang-portuguese, texlive-lang-spanish, texlive-lang-swedish, 
texlive-lang-tibetan, texlive-lang-english, texlive-lang-vietnamese, texlive-
lang-all, ptex-bin

sid has:

Package: texlive-lang
Binary: texlive-lang-african, texlive-lang-arabic, texlive-lang-cjk, texlive-
lang-cyrillic, texlive-lang-czechslovak, texlive-lang-english, texlive-lang-
european, texlive-lang-french, texlive-lang-german, texlive-lang-greek, 
texlive-lang-indic, texlive-lang-italian, texlive-lang-other, texlive-lang-
polish, texlive-lang-portuguese, texlive-lang-spanish, texlive-lang-all, ptex-
bin, thailatex

which other binary packages build by texlive-lang do you consider 
"pathological to use"?
 
> I *can* provide transitional packages to make it nice for the user
> experience. I don't remember a requirement in the Debian policy for that.

#569219 and #323066 suggest this is a best practice for years. 
https://wiki.debian.org/PackageTransition might be helpful too.


cheers,
        Holger, who considers just to build-depend on texlive-lang-all | and be 
                
                done with this

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