From: Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > By the way, can latex-cjk-all mainatiner make this package to install > > all required fonts to get decent looking pages by "depends"? So all > > documentation packages can forget about fine details of latex. > > I'm not sure this is a good idea. If you write a document yourself, > using latex-cjk, you will often use the fonts that are provided in > Debian - but sometimes you might want to use different ones. In other > words, it makes perfect sense to use latex-cjk without these font > packages installed, and a Depends would be to strict a dependency. > > However, since debiandoc-sgml only Recommends the TeX toolchain, anyway, > it could also Recommend the fonts needed for different languages, > indicating to maintainers what they should try.
I agree. It was by a user's request that I changed it from a dependency to a recommendation. And if we can reduce the bandwith overhead for the kind Debian repositories everywhere, then I think we should do so. =) > > So when fixing this bug, please consider this to fix/prevents all FTBFS > > for doc packages when latex infrastructure evolves. > > Err, FTBFS bugs can be prevented by never uploading a package that > hasn't been built in a clean environment. AFAIK the old cjk-latex > package didn't depend on *japanese-wadalab*, either (at least in sarge > it doesn't). Right, the old cjk-latex didn't provide the Japanese Wadalab DNP fonts, but it did *suggest* HBF kanji48 fonts. HBF are bitmap fonts, but as you can imagine the result wasn't too pretty. Cheers! Danai SAE-HAN 韓達耐 -- 題目:《初入淮河》（選一） 作者:楊萬里（１１２７－１２０６） 船離洪澤岸頭沙，人到淮河意不佳。 何必桑乾方是遠，中流以北即天涯！
