Bug#531405: xmlto: please don't recommend dblatex
Package: xmlto Version: 0.0.21-5 Hi Daniel, 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. 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. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#531405: xmlto: please don't recommend dblatex
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 debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#531405: xmlto: please don't recommend dblatex
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 05:59:57PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: 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. I don't know who these people are who expect xmlto to do things that require dblatex, but I'm not one of them. Then again, I don't know why xmlto was installed here in the first place, so I've purged it now. shrug 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). The reason to downgrade it is that pulling in all of texlive isn't a sane default. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
