[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#499629: Bug#499629: texlive-latex-extra should be recommended dependency

[Dara Adib]

Just a few more things.

> * It's not needed to get LyX working, I'm not using math related stuff
>  at all.

True, but the LyX Windows installer does install math-related stuff by
default. It might be good to follow this as a recommendation for
recommends (pardon the pun).

> => It's a suggested package.
> "This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one or more others"

True, again, but why is Iceweasel also marked as a suggestion?

> ATM I don't see a reason to change it. If you think everyone using Ubuntu
> should install some 70MB extra you might divert on that part of the package.

I don't think that route is any good at all, so we might as well leave
it out of the picture. It is highly unlikely that Ubuntu will fork LyX
even if there are relatively major disagreements. LyX in Ubuntu
doesn't have that kind of manpower to maintain it.

> If you search carefully you should find an archived bugreport in the
> BTS about it.

Thanks. I'll check and post the URL on the Ubuntu bugtracker when I find it.

I might also make you aware that there are some bugs open in the
Ubuntu bugtracker that need forwarding to Debian[1] regarding adding
epstopdf and cm-super, respectively, to recommends.

[1] https://bugs.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/238580 and
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/261312