[Pkg-exppsy-maintainers] Bug#567757: Build-Depending on texlive: unacceptable

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> I observe that you Build-Depend on texlive, when texlive-latex related
> packages should be sufficient. I was trying to debug an FTBFS in the
> package, and found building it to be extremely cumbersome and
> time-consuming because of the poor choice of Build-Depends.

> I'd request you to kindly choose texlive-latex-extra or some such
> package to not have to pull in loads of unneeded TeX related packages.
Thanks for the hint... will do for this and for the rest of packages
were I/we do similar packaging... may be we will abandon building pdfs
completely and would ship -doc with html only which would, I think,
remove necessity in texlive.

Cheers,
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