Package: pandoc Version: 0.46+2 Severity: wishlist Hello,
the shipped markdown2pdf program needs some LaTeX libraries provided either by texlive-latex-recommended or by tetex-extra. These packages are suggested for install by the pandoc package, sure, but it is currently quite hard to guess which suggested package is needed to enable a given optional functionality (assuming that having a program shipped to /usr/bin work is optional functionality). In order to eventually guess, without resorting to random suggested packages installation, that I needed to install texlive-latex-recommended, I first had to try running markdown2pdf and watch it fail with : --- error message --- markdown2pdf: pdfLaTeX failed with error code 1 markdown2pdf: error context: ! LaTeX Error: File `ucs.sty' not found. ! Emergency stop. <read *> ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! markdown2pdf: Please install the 'unicode' package from CTAN: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/unicode/ --- /error message --- I then tried 'apt-cache search latex unicode', which does *not* return the missing package; reading markdown2pdf(1) then provided me with some clues on which other LaTeX packages were missing; that allowed me to apt-cache search for a less generic name (fancyvrb), which eventually returned texlive-latex-recommended, that I had seen in pandoc’s Suggested field. This process seems a bit complicated to me, and I’m thus proposing the following : please add a README.Debian file that would explain how to enable optional functionality, by making explicit which Suggested packages one has to install. Another solution would be to patch markdown2pdf(1) and Debianize the dependency information it already contains. Bye, -- intrigeri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
