Frank Küster wrote:
> "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
>>b) Remove _all_ FeynMF stuff from the texlive-metapost package, and make
>>texlive-metapost Depend on feynmf instead.  If this would be preferable,
>>I can very quickly upload a version of feynmf, 1.08-3, that is installable in
>>parallel with TeXLive.  The control information for this version of feynmf
>>would be as follows:
> 
> 
> Norbert is primarily responsible for TeXlive, but he's currently mostly
> offline.  Therefore I'll give a short answer:
> 
> Generally this option is the one we prefer, at least if there's an
> active maintainer for the existing package, which obviously is the case
> here.  We'd be glad if you uploaded such a packge (I didn't check the
> dependencies myself, be careful), and I'm sure Norbert will upload a
> texlive with the needed changes in a couple of days, so that we can
> still hope to get it into etch.

OK, great!  I believe I can make the feynmf dependencies work OK if I
put them as follows:

Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, tetex-bin | texlive-base-bin,
texlive-latex-base | tetex-bin, texlive-font-utils | tetex-bin,
texlive-extra-utils | tetex-bin

If there are no TeX packages on a user's system and s/he asks for
"aptitude install feynmf", this will install tetex-bin as well.  If the
user already has texlive-base-bin (upon which texlive-metapost depends),
this will install texlive-latex-base, texlive-font-utils, and
texlive-extra-utils.  I'll test this some more to make sure it does what
I expect before uploading.

Is the above OK, or would you rather have "aptitude install feynmf"
result in installation of TeXLive packages by default on a system with
no TeX yet?  I think that could be accomplished just by swapping the
order of the "tetex-bin | texlive-base-bin" alternatives in the first
dependency above.

best regards,

-- 
Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   Physics Department
WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/    Princeton University
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