Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#430794: kimwitu-doc - FTBFS: sh: gs: command not found

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois@enst-bretagne.fr> wrote:

> And since I keep on forgetting to *actually* add the Cc...

Thanks :-)

> Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois@enst-bretagne.fr> (14/07/2007):
>> I'm having a look at thumbpdf, from the texlive-base-bin package, to
>> see whether I found the problem there.
>
> OK, texlive-base-bin has only gs-gpl in Recommends, not in Depends, so
> there's no ``gs'' alternative available here, and ``thumbpdf'' fails.
> The obvious fix is to add it to the B-D of kimwitu-doc, but since the
> maintainers of texlive-base-bin might want to be aware of such failure,
> I'm Cc'ing them, in case they want to bump the Recommends to a Depends.

No, not really.  We're aware of the problem, but texlive-base-bin
provides much more than thumbpdf, and most of its parts work fine
without gs.  So a Recommends (which is installed by default for users)
is the correct dependency, I think.

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