Am Montag, den 01.06.2009, 03:14 -0700 schrieb Steve Langasek: JFTR: There is already a report about this (#519389), where this has been discussed. Merging.
> When preparing to do a dist-upgrade, I found that something on my system was > trying to pull in the entire texlive suite. This something turned out to be > xmlto, which has a new Recommends: on dblatex. > > Policy says about Recommends that: > > The `Recommends' field should list packages that would be found > together with this one in all but unusual installations. The PDF/PS/DVI formats can be produced via dblatex, passivetex or fop (with docbook-xsl). The last one was in contrib for a long time and has been moved to Suggests for this reason [1]. The second is buggy. dblatex was the only working one and I expect, that users of xmlto want to have PDF/PS/DVI support in a common installation. > I don't think it's at all unusual to want to use xmlto without having to > pull in all of texlive, so I think this package relationship should be > demoted to a Suggests. NACK. You can ignore Recommends if you know what you are doing. Everybody else expects a full working xmlto. Installation of the toolchains is not enforced and you have the choice to disable/ignore Recommends-installation. I therefor leave this as wontfix. I fail to see compelling reasons to downgrade the package relationship further (it is already a Recommends and not a Depends). [1] Now that it is back in main I plan to move it back to Recommends. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
