[debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Re: Bug#403200: maint-guide: FTBFS: --> latex-cjk-*

[Danai SAE-HAN ( 韓達耐 )]

From: Frank Küster <frank at kuesterei.ch>

> Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > By the way, can latex-cjk-all mainatiner make this package to install
> > all required fonts to get decent looking pages by "depends"?  So all
> > documentation packages can forget about fine details of latex.
> 
> I'm not sure this is a good idea.  If you write a document yourself,
> using latex-cjk, you will often use the fonts that are provided in
> Debian - but sometimes you might want to use different ones.  In other
> words, it makes perfect sense to use latex-cjk without these font
> packages installed, and a Depends would be to strict a dependency.
> 
> However, since debiandoc-sgml only Recommends the TeX toolchain, anyway,
> it could also Recommend the fonts needed for different languages,
> indicating to maintainers what they should try.

I agree.  It was by a user's request that I changed it from a
dependency to a recommendation.  And if we can reduce the bandwith
overhead for the kind Debian repositories everywhere, then I think we
should do so. =)


> > So when fixing this bug, please consider this to fix/prevents all FTBFS
> > for doc packages when latex infrastructure evolves.  
> 
> Err, FTBFS bugs can be prevented by never uploading a package that
> hasn't been built in a clean environment.  AFAIK the old cjk-latex
> package didn't depend on *japanese-wadalab*, either (at least in sarge
> it doesn't).

Right, the old cjk-latex didn't provide the Japanese Wadalab DNP
fonts, but it did *suggest* HBF kanji48 fonts.

HBF are bitmap fonts, but as you can imagine the result wasn't too
pretty.


Cheers!



Danai SAE-HAN
韓達耐

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