[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#730111: Bug#730111: Bug#730111: lyx: package should be dependent on rcs

[Nick Andrik]

May I suggest that we promote the rcs dependency to a "Recommends" and
forward the rest (menus grayed out, informative message, etc)
upstream?
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2013/11/21 Per Olofsson <pelle at debian.org>:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 15:41 +0100, Martin Haase wrote:
>> Package: lyx
>> Version: 2.0.6-1+b1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> When i tried to register a document for vcs, lyx was unable to find
>> the command 'ci'. It took me a while to find out that 'ci' is part of
>> the rcs package. hence the lyx package should be made dependent on
>> rcs, so that rcs will be installed automagically with lyx. Only
>> suggesting it is imho not strong enough.
>
> There are a lot of features in lyx which require different
> packages. Not everyone uses the rcs integration. It certainly
> shouldn't be a dependency.
>
> I suppose it could be a Recommends though, then it would be installed
> automatically (unless disabled by the user). It really depends on how
> popular it is.
>
> At the very least, the error message should mention that "ci" is
> provided by the rcs package.
>
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> Pelle
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