* Betr.: " Re: Bug#641806: unoconv: Please consider adding minimal dependencies for conversion to PDF" (Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:34:09 +0200):
> OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi du vendredi 16 septembre 2011,
> vers 13:45, Mathias Behrle <mathi...@m9s.biz> disait :
>
> > the package description suggests, that unoconv converts to all supported
> > document formats. Nervertheless it is not possible to convert ODF
> > documents to pdf without installing the package in Suggests
> > (libreoffice).
>
> > For a minimal working setup to be able to convert to PDF it is necessary
> > to add at least libreoffice-writer and libreoffice-draw to Depends.
>
> OK, I promote libreoffice to Recommends instead of Suggests. In the
> past, "openoffice.org-core" metapackage depended on writer and calc but
> this seems no longer the case. The reason for not using depends is to
> allow the user to not install calc if she does not want to convert
> spreadsheets.
Thanks for your feedback.
The conversion to PDF IMHO probably should be one of the most used
features of unoconv. The minimal requirements for this purpose according to my
tests do not afford the installation of calc, either. For this purpose 'only';)
libreoffice-writer and libreoffice-draw are needed. I would appreciate to have
them in Depends, because without them the package seems pretty useless, at
least it is not fit to fulfill the package description. While I admit, that
this is for sure not a strong Depend, it would provide a working setup as
depicted in the description. The advantage will be to not leave the user to
some trial-and-error when he will find, that 'pure' unoconv will not work for
PDF conversion. And subsequently install the whole libreoffice suite, when
trying to solve the problem by installing the Recommends.
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