On 2017-06-20 12:06 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > severity 865231 wishlist > tags 865231 wontfix > thanks > >> This version of texlive-latex-recommended has silently (at least there >> is no mention in the Debian changelog) dropped its Provides from >> 2016.20170123-5, making two reverse dependencies of latex-xcolor > > latex-xcolor has been a transitional package since 2014, that is oldstable. > > Those packages still depending on it need to be updated. > > I will not carry arbitrary provides over more than two releases. > > I keep this bug open as a reminder for others, but tag it as wontfix.
Fair enough, but then you need to take care of reverse (build-)dependencies: besides the two packages I mentioned there are quite a few packages in unstable and experimental which build-depend on latex-xcolor: ,---- | $ grep-dctrl -FBuild-Depends,Build-Depends-Indep latex-xcolor -sPackage /var/lib/apt/lists/*Sources | sort -u | Package: ask | Package: auto-multiple-choice | Package: diet | Package: doxygen | Package: elastix | Package: epix | Package: genometools | Package: graphite2 | Package: libbluray | Package: librostlab | Package: librostlab-blast | Package: litl | Package: octave-ocs | Package: opencv | Package: openms | Package: probabel | Package: pycorrfit | Package: python-escript | Package: python-pymzml | Package: scolasync | Package: sdformat | Package: sketch `---- Please file bugs on those too. Cheers, Sven