Bug#377106: [Pkg-texlive-maint] Bug#377106: Recommends unavailable packages

[Norbert Preining]

severity 377106 wishlist
clone 377106 -1 -2
reassign -1 passivetex
retitle -1 passivetex: support texlive packages
retitle -2 please press the maintainer of latex-cjk to upload it
quit

Dear Luk!

On Don, 06 Jul 2006, Luk Claes wrote:
> Your package recommends passivetex (> 1.25-2) whereas passivetex 1.25-2
> is in unstable, it also recommends jadetex (> 3.13-6) whereas jadetex
> 3.13-6 is in unstable and it finally recommends latex-cjk-all which is
> not in unstable.

Yes, yes, yes. I don't see any problem with this. The packages do not
depend on these packages. And latex-cjk should be uploaded soon.

jadetex already has a wishlist bug for this: 375037
I cloned this bug and assigned it to passivetex.

To the passivetex/jadetex maintainers: minimal NMUs of both packages
with some fixes are avaiable from 
	deb-src http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ updpkg/

I leave the second clone of this bug at texlive and I hope to bug the
latex-cjk maintainer to finally upload the packages.

Besides this, I really don't see what is the point of the bug?! Especially ...

> Severity: important

"important" seems to be quite over the limit: From debian-devel doc:
    important
	a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package,
	without rendering it completely unusable to everyone.
These recommends do not have a major effect on the usability, in fact
they have *no* effect on the usability. So I downgraded it to wishlist.

Furthermore, as soon as these packages are compatible with texlive and
latex-cjk is uploaded, texlive-full will depend on these packages to get
a system as close to TeX live as possible.

If you have any further questions or wishes, or if I have understood
something wrong, please answer to the bug. Thanks a lot.


Best wishes

Norbert

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