[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#495952: mediawiki-math should not be a dependency

[Matt Corks]

Package: mediawiki
Version: 1:1.7
Severity: wishlist

I have installed mediawiki on a production server for internal use within my
organization, and have no need of the mediawiki-math extension.  However,
since it is a hard dependency of this package, mediawiki pulled in a large
number of latex packages I have no use for.  I propose making the mediawiki
metapackage simply recommend mediawiki-math.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages mediawiki depends on:
ii  mediawiki1.7                1.7.1-9etch0 website engine for collaborative w
ii  mediawiki1.7-math           1.7.1-9etch0 math rendering plugin for MediaWik

mediawiki recommends no packages.

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