Bug#546938: texlive-bin: depends on ed

2009-09-24 Thread Norbert Preining
On Do, 17 Sep 2009, Frank Küster wrote: > Hm, I'm currently not sure why we need ed in the build process - that > might even just be a historical debris. No, ed is called for some operations of creating the texmf.cnf or something like that. > But I'm very reluctant to patch upstream's scripts.

Bug#546938: texlive-bin: depends on ed

2009-09-17 Thread Frank Küster
Riccardo Stagni wrote: > Package: texlive-bin > Severity: wishlist > > The source package depends on ed. Since ed (a priority=optional package) > is used just to make changes in text files, awk or sed (priority=required) > could be used removing a dependency. > > For example, the updmap script (t

Bug#546938: texlive-bin: depends on ed

2009-09-16 Thread Riccardo Stagni
Package: texlive-bin Severity: wishlist The source package depends on ed. Since ed (a priority=optional package) is used just to make changes in text files, awk or sed (priority=required) could be used removing a dependency. For example, the updmap script (texlive-base-bin package) uses ed for th