2015-01-10 4:31 GMT+01:00 Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org>: > Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> writes: > >> It would probably be ideal if there was a better way of indicating which >> latex modules were in each texlive package than currently, but until a >> better method is found, this is probably the best of bad options. > > +1. I cannot overstate how useful it is to have this sort of thing appear > in a field searchable by apt-cache. > > We have enough packages with this issue that maybe it would be worth > designing some other way to allow this, but until then, please keep the > lists in packages like this or firmware-linux-nonfree so that apt-cache > search can find the right package. And having at least *some* description > for humans to view with a pager and forward search is really nice.
A possible solution designed for this kind of issue could be DEP-11[1]. Unfortunately, not even the AppStream part of this thing is ready yet, but I am certain that we will have it for Stretch. (and can then extend it for useful usecases) [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11 -- I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAKNHny8iX8WzgLW=2_xppovrvke3stjq477bdjvanpj-yjt...@mail.gmail.com
