#1050453 gtg: superfluous dependency on texlive-extra-utils

Package:
gtg
Source:
gtg
Submitter:
Antonio Terceiro
Date:
2023-10-15 08:36:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1050453#5
Date:
2023-08-24 17:54:43 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

The gtg README says it needs pdflatex, and for that the Debian package
depends on texlive-extra-utils. However, on a current testing system,
the pdflatex binary is provided by texlive-latex-base.

$ dpkg -S bin/pdflatex
texlive-extra-utils: /usr/bin/pdflatexpicscale
texlive-latex-extra: /usr/bin/pdflatex-dev
texlive-latex-base: /usr/bin/pdflatex

So I think we could avoid the ~75MB of texlive-extra-utils when
installing gtg.

#1050453#10
Date:
2023-10-15 08:33:41 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Antonio,

texlive-extra-utils is required for pdfjam, which is used in the
`script_pocketmod` plugin.

dpkg -S bin/pdfjam
texlive-extra-utils: /usr/bin/pdfjam

Looks like this plugin adds lots of dependency for gtg (see [1] for java
dependency also) but it's not mandatory for basic usage of gtg. So I would
suggest to push it in a separate optional package.

Best,
François

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1051530