Bug#402118: [debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Bug#402118: debiandoc-sgml: Please allow alternative dependency on texlive

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 02:33:44PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Frank Küster <frank at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Package: debiandoc-sgml
> > Version: 1.1.99
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > debiandoc-sgml currently 
> >
> > Recommends: libpaperg, tetex-bin, tetex-extra, texinfo, latex-cjk-all, gs-esp | gs
> >
> > This should be changed to allow texlive to be used, too.  I'm not sure
> > which texlive packages are needed, but I'll investigate this using
> > debian-reference as an example.
> 
> The packages needed for debian-reference are
> 
> texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended
> 
> So this could be
> 
> Recommends: libpaperg, tetex-bin | texlive-latex-recommended, \
>                        tetex-extra | texlive-latex-extra, \
>                        tetex-extra | texlive-fonts-recommended, \
>                 texinfo, latex-cjk-all, gs-esp | gs

I agree with latex-cjk-all

Interesting suggestions.  But I consider rests are not so critical since
these are recommends (not depends).  You can install texlive packages
without these changes.

I really do not understand maze of packages around latex and gs
  latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab
  gsfonts-wadalab-*

  gs-cjk-resource
  latex-cjk-*

Are they consistently organized. These font issues are really out of my
understanding now.  (Maybe I should discuss this with different bug
report)

> BTW, are you aware that meanwhile gs-gpl and gs-afpl have a considerably
> higher version number than gs-esp (8.5[43] compared to 8.15).  Are you
> sure that gs-esp is still the preferred alternative?

Now gs-gpl is newer == yes.  

CUPS (gimp-print/gutenprint) support via ijs seems to be supported by
both now. But Debian package cupsys depends only on es-esp.  There are
more supported devices (mostly old HW) by gs-esp as I see.  Oh, there
are extra font path to cups with gs-esp.  So I still use gs-esp as my
primary gs and I assume most system installs gs-esp unless cupsys
changes its depends line.  Thus gs-esp is the primary choice.

I may upload some fix now but it will be conservative one.

Osamu