Package: texlive-base Version: 2016.20160523-1 Severity: normal The texlive packages, based on the the texlive-base, texlive-extra, texlive-lang, etc. source packages, seem to be rebuilt and upload way more than is necessary. Almost every time I do an upgrade there are new version of the texlive packages. This is kind of a pain in the ass since these packages are all quite large, and their constant updates cause significant extra time to my overall upgrade load.
I have no idea why the packages seem to be upgrade so frequently, but I can't imagine that it's necessary for them to be upgrades as frequently as they are. The La/Tex upstream should be pretty damn stable at this point. I can't imagine there are many security patches either. Can someone explain why the packages are upgraded so frequently, and if it's possible to throttle it back a bit? Don't get me wrong: I am hugely appreciative that these packages exist. They are absolutely critical for me to do my work, and I really appreciate all the work that the maintainers have put into it. I just wonder if they can do themselves a favor my limiting new uploads to every couple of months, rather than weekly. jamie. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (600, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages texlive-base depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59 ii libpaper-utils 1.1.24+nmu4 ii tex-common 6.05 ii texlive-binaries 2016.20160513.41080-3 ii ucf 3.0036 ii xdg-utils 1.1.1-1 Versions of packages texlive-base recommends: ii lmodern 2.004.5-3 Versions of packages texlive-base suggests: ii evince [postscript-viewer] 3.20.0-4 ii ghostscript [postscript-viewer] 9.19~dfsg-1+b1 ii okular [postscript-viewer] 4:16.04.0-1 pn perl-tk <none> ii zathura-pdf-poppler [pdf-viewer] 0.2.6-1 Versions of packages tex-common depends on: ii dpkg 1.18.7 ii ucf 3.0036 Versions of packages tex-common suggests: ii debhelper 9.20160403 Versions of packages texlive-base is related to: ii tex-common 6.05 ii texlive-binaries 2016.20160513.41080-3 -- debconf information: tex-common/check_texmf_missing: texlive-base/binary_chooser: pdftex, dvips, dvipdfmx, xdvi tex-common/check_texmf_wrong: texlive-base/texconfig_ignorant:
