Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wise > Version: 2.2.0-4 > Severity: serious > > Hi, > > Your build-dependancy texlive-pdfetex (>= 2005.df sg.2-12) cannot be > satisfied. So wise fails to build.
Actually, I would change a lot more in the Build-Deps: Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), dpatch (>= 2.0.21), texlive-pdfetex (>= 2005.dfsg.2-12), texlive (>= 2005.dfsg.3-1), texlive-latex-base (>= 2005.dfsg.3-1), tex-common (>= 1.0.1), gs-common (>= 0.3.9), docbook-to-man (>= 2.0.0-20), docbook (>= 4.4-1), hevea (>= 1.08-4) First of all, I don't see a reason to add a versioned depends to all of the tex-related packages. There's no older version in the archive for the texlive packages, and if someone has one lying around, it's probably going to work, too. And depending on tex-common >= 1.0.1 really doesn't make any sense: There's no change in functionality between 0.40 and 1.0.1. Therefore I suspect that many of the other versioned depends could be dropped, too. Second, texlive is a meta package. It is not designed to be used as a build-depends, but for providing LaTeX users a decent selection of TeX packages for hand-edited documents. As such, it is lyable to change its dependencies. Please do not use it for Build-Deps, but use real packages instead. Third, please look for the actual functionality that you need. You need a "latex" executable and format, and that is provided by texlive-latex-base. The latex executable itself needs a (pdf)TeX binary, but it takes care for that itself, and since you don't call pdfTeX, there's no reason to ever depend on texlive-pdfetex (which doesn't exist any more now). Finally, I'd like to remark that many of the tex files are input files for LaTeX 2.09. This format has been obsolete for 13 years now, and support for it will be dropped "soon" when we talk about such timeframes (could be like only 5 years left, or 10 if you're lucky). That's an upstream issue, of course, but in case you have contact to them... Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
