[Debian-tex-commits] SVN tex-common commit + diffs: r2665 - in tex-common/trunk: debian doc

[Frank Küster]

Author: frank
Date: 2007-04-11 11:15:11 +0000 (Wed, 11 Apr 2007)
New Revision: 2665

Modified:
   tex-common/trunk/debian/changelog
   tex-common/trunk/doc/Debian-TeX-Policy.sgml
Log:
  * Policy: Add a chapter on meta-packages and document that they are
    usually not acceptable as dependencies


Modified: tex-common/trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- tex-common/trunk/debian/changelog	2007-04-11 11:08:21 UTC (rev 2664)
+++ tex-common/trunk/debian/changelog	2007-04-11 11:15:11 UTC (rev 2665)
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+tex-common (1.6~1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Document in NEWS.Debian that support for ls-R in TEXMFHOME has been
+    dropped [fk]
+
+  * Policy: Add a chapter on meta-packages and document that they are
+    usually not acceptable as dependencies
+
+ -- Frank Küster <frank at debian.org>  Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:16:17 +0200
+
 tex-common (1.5) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * fix missing tetex component of TEXMFDIST (Closes: #418674)

Modified: tex-common/trunk/doc/Debian-TeX-Policy.sgml
===================================================================
--- tex-common/trunk/doc/Debian-TeX-Policy.sgml	2007-04-11 11:08:21 UTC (rev 2664)
+++ tex-common/trunk/doc/Debian-TeX-Policy.sgml	2007-04-11 11:15:11 UTC (rev 2665)
@@ -187,6 +187,24 @@
       </p>
     </chapt>
     <chapt>
+      <heading>Meta-packages and dependencies</heading>
+      <p>
+	The TeX Live collection of basic and add-on TeX packages
+	provides some meta-packages for the convenience of users.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+	Depending on the <package>texlive-*</package>
+	or <package>tetex-*</package> metapackages is only acceptable
+	for editors, IDEs and other tools which handle user-generated
+	code.  TeX add-on packages, as well as automated input
+	generators etc., must instead depend on a list of individual
+	texlive packages which are actually used.
+	<footnote>This is, for example, required to be able to adapt
+	dependencies of metapackages according to the users'
+	needs. </footnote>
+      </p>
+    </chapt>
+    <chapt>
       <heading>File Placement</heading>
       <p>
       This chapter describes the placement of TeX input files, so that