Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:36:38AM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> I have a question concerning packaging stuff for texlive: we want to >> include the ppower4 bundle, which consists of TeX input files, and of >> some jar archive/java program for postprocessing of the pdf file. >> >> Now the question is: How do I package this: Can I include all the stuff >> and only Recommend: a java run time system? And if non is installed, >> give a warning message? Or should I leave out the postprocessor and only >> include the sty files (which would of course make it more or less >> useless)? > > Why not Depends on java1-runtime | java2-runtime | kaffe ?
Because ppower4 would be part of texlive-pdfetex, and provide only one small aspect of its functionality. Clearly a Depends is too restrictive. If i would use texlive (as teTeX maintainer, I'll obviously stick to teTeX), I would for sure install texlive-pdfetex, but not use ppower4 at all (I use beamer instead which doesn't require any program for post-processing). Therefore, from my POV it should be Suggests. A wrapper script that gives a nice warning would be great; but be careful to actually deliver the warning to the user if the ppower4 postprocessor has a menu entry. > For kaffe you can depend on another free runtime like sablevm or > java-gcj-compat too. Does ppower4 run with any of the free runtimes? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
