Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sanjoy Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I know: I maintain Ubuntu edgy backports of the Debian unstable/Ubuntu >> gutsy packages for texlive 2007, including 'context'. > > So, why are you reporting a bug against texlive-context, since you know > it is deprecated?
Because context doesn't have the bug, but texlive-context has it. And I think it should be even serious. > Today, the recommended tool is usually aptitude, though some people > recommend synaptic for really basic users such as Mom. Personally, I've > never tried synaptic and I've used dselect since my first day with > Debian. dselect is quite usable if you're able to read the available > tutorials and the keystrokes section in the online help. > > apt-get is a relatively low-level tool that doesn't always do what is > good for newbies. aptitude has a similar command-line interface that can > replace apt-get for most uses. I agree, but you must admit that a couple of years ago, apt-get was generally recommended to people, and aptitude was something new. At least that's whay I learned. This had also the effect that people put stuff into Recommends that should rather be in Suggests, and then people started arguing against installing Recommends by default... >> I think lmodern fits in that category because without it most of >> ConTeXt's functionality is missing. > > 1. If ConTeXt cannot be used with other fonts than lmodern, it's an > upstream bug, IMHO. It can AFAIK, but maybe using CM requires a lot of manual intervention (Postscript fonts should be easy). > If this is not the case, then Recommends would be > appropriate (see the definition of Recommends in the same Policy > Manual). If ConTeXt uses the Latin Modern fonts by default, the package should depend on them. Just as a package which provides LaTeX needs to depend on a package which provides the Computer Modern fonts IMO, even if you can use others. > 2. Anyway, I fail to see what you want us to do, since the context > package currently in unstable *does* depend on lmodern. Please > clarify. I suggest that we keep the bug open as a warning and information for users. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)