[tex-live] Re: HELP: TeXlive for Debian: How should I solve this problem

[Frank Küster]

Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:

> How should I continue with this, any suggestions?
> Make a Enhance? Make a Suggest? Ignore the problem and ignore the bug
> reports coming in?

Just use Suggests (or Recommends if the style file in question is
central to the package; pdfpages and texpower are probably not).
Remember the definitions of the dependencies:

,----
| Depends
|     This declares an absolute dependency. A package will not be
|     configured unless all of the packages listed in its Depends field
|     have been correctly configured.
| 
|     The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is
|     required for the depending package to provide a significant amount
|     of functionality.
`----

This is clearly not the relationship between collection-pdfetex and
collection-latexextra.  As for the decision between Suggests and
Recommends, ask yourself whether the packages "would be found together
with this one in all but unusual installations" or not.n

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer