On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 03:33:04PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 02:40:39PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2003-04-14 15:24:26 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > When I try to generate the manual.txt file for Mutt (CVS version) with > > > > > > sgml2txt -c latin manual > > > > > > (from the mutt/doc directory). I get the following output: > > > > > > Processing file manual > > > troff: fatal error: can't find macro file s > > > > The problem came from the fact that the groff package wasn't > > installed. The groff package is in the "Suggests:" field, but > > shouldn't it be in "Depends:"? > > > > Hi, Vincent, > > Looking at more old linuxdoc-tools bugreports, > > Out-of-the-box linuxdoc-tools will only process sgml to html. For info, > tex and txt targets other packages are required. linuxdoc-tools-text, > linuxdoc-tools-latex and linuxdoc-tools-info will pull those dependencies > for you. I think the reason why the maintainer (Taketoshi Sano) used > 'suggests' instead of 'recommends' or 'depends' is that he found html > conversion useful enough to make 'suggests' apropriate. > > That is explained in the package description (with some obsolete packages). > That description seems to me too verbose and containing things that should > go better in a README.Debian file. Submitter for another bug report proposed > to make it shorter, and I agree here. A lot of stuff there should go, IMHO > to README.Debian.
I will soon upload an NMU with a changed description that should make more evident when those dependencies are needed. I will close this bug report with it. Thanks for your info and best wishes, -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
