Bug#347884: gstreamer0.8: Unnecessary build-depends: xmltex, passivetex

[Frank Küster]

Package: gstreamer0.8
Severity: normal

Since xmltex is RC-buggy and not easy to fix, I suggest to remove these
unneeded build-deps soon.

When xmltex and passivetex are removed from Build-Depends-indep, the
binary packages can still be built fine and do not change:

$ lh /var/cache/pbuilder/result/*deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 138K 2006-01-13 11:26 /var/cache/pbuilder/result/gstreamer0.8-tools_0.8.11-2.1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 137K 2006-01-13 10:50 /var/cache/pbuilder/result/gstreamer0.8-tools_0.8.11-2_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 758K 2006-01-13 11:26 /var/cache/pbuilder/result/libgstreamer0.8-0_0.8.11-2.1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 758K 2006-01-13 10:50 /var/cache/pbuilder/result/libgstreamer0.8-0_0.8.11-2_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 600K 2006-01-13 11:26 /var/cache/pbuilder/result/libgstreamer0.8-dev_0.8.11-2.1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 600K 2006-01-13 10:50 /var/cache/pbuilder/result/libgstreamer0.8-dev_0.8.11-2_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1.8M 2006-01-13 11:26 /var/cache/pbuilder/result/gstreamer0.8-doc_0.8.11-2.1_all.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1.8M 2006-01-13 10:50 /var/cache/pbuilder/result/gstreamer0.8-doc_0.8.11-2_all.deb

After unpacking the doc package, a diff only reveals hunks like 

-%DVIPSSource:  TeX output 2006.01.13:0948
+%DVIPSSource:  TeX output 2006.01.13:1023

and

-%%CreationDate: Fri Jan 13 09:48:15 2006
+%%CreationDate: Fri Jan 13 10:23:49 2006


Regards, Frank


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-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer