Package: texlive-base
Version: 2015.20151116-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu xenial ubuntu-patch
Dear Maintainer,
Currently, texlive-pictures Recommends prerex. Which itself Recommends
vprerex. When Recommends are installed by default (as they are in Ubuntu),
that's a heavyweight Recommend for something that doesn't seem to fit the
definition of a Recommend ("packages that would be found together with this
one in all but unusual installations").
In Ubuntu, the attached patch to drop prerex to a Suggests is our only delta
with texlive-base. I'd love to get back in sync. And I think this change
makes sense for Debian too.
Thanks for considering the patch.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers xenial-updates
APT policy: (500, 'xenial-updates'), (500, 'xenial-security'), (500, 'xenial')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-2-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii dpkg 1.18.3ubuntu1
ii ucf 3.0031
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii debhelper 9.20151126ubuntu1
Versions of packages texlive-base is related to:
ii tex-common 6.04
ii texlive-binaries 2015.20150524.37493-7build4
diff -Nru texlive-base-2015.20151116/debian/control texlive-base-2015.20151116/debian/control
--- texlive-base-2015.20151116/debian/control 2015-11-16 07:32:45.000000000 -0500
+++ texlive-base-2015.20151116/debian/control 2015-12-22 13:52:40.000000000 -0500
@@ -385,9 +385,9 @@
Architecture: all
Multi-Arch: foreign
Depends: texlive-base (>= 2015), texlive-latex-recommended (>= 2015), texlive-base (>= 2015), ${misc:Depends}, texlive-binaries (>= 2015.20150524), python
-Recommends: texlive-pictures-doc, tk, prerex, ruby | ruby-interpreter
+Recommends: texlive-pictures-doc, tk, ruby | ruby-interpreter
Provides: pgf
-Suggests: texlive-latex-extra, libtcltk-ruby, dot2tex
+Suggests: texlive-latex-extra, libtcltk-ruby, dot2tex, prerex
Breaks: texlive-music (<< 2015.20150625), texlive-base (<< 2015)
Description: TeX Live: Graphics, pictures, diagrams
Including TikZ, pict, etc., but MetaPost and PStricks are separate.
