Bug#422387: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#422387: octave2.1-forge: FTBFS: epsf.tex not found, images will be ignored.

[Frank Küster]

clone 422387 -1
reassign -1 texinfo
severity -1 important
notfound -1 2006.03.17+dfsg1-3
found -1 4.8.dfsg.1-4
retitle -1 texinfo: Should Suggest texlive-generic-recommended
thanks

Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> wrote:

>> > I had a similar bug report on one of my packages, changing the build-dep
>> > from tetex to texlive, texlive-generic-recommended was all it took to fix
>> > this.
>> 
>> That's true.  However, it would be much better to ask upstream to change
>> from epsf.tex to graphicx.sty.  For LaTeX documents, epsf.tex has been
>> obsolete for about 13 years...
>
> The culprit is texinfo.tex, which is shipped in the octave* and
> octave*-packages and includes epsf.tex.  Even the most recent upstream
> version of this file [1] includes epsf.tex.  I think that graphics.sty would
> not work with texinfo, because it is TeX rather than LaTeX.

That's correct - I must apologize for not looking closely at the build
log.  And actually it shouldn't be the responsibility of a package which
uses texinfo to figure that out.  It makes sense that texinfo only
Suggests: a TeX system, but it should really suggest what it actually
needs.

Regards, Frank

-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)